K. D. Matanzima Airport
Mthatha, South Africa — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from UTT to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Mthatha.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 318 km | 49m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 603 km | 1h 10m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 979 km | 1h 38m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,139 km | 4h 19m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 3,471 km | 4h 44m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 4,095 km | 5h 30m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,633 km | 6h 11m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 5,021 km | 6h 39m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 5,052 km | 6h 42m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 5,140 km | 6h 48m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about UTT
What is the airport code for Mthatha?
K. D. Matanzima Airport uses the IATA code UTT and the ICAO code FAUT. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is K. D. Matanzima Airport?
It sits at 31.5464° S, 28.6734° E, serving Mthatha in South Africa, at an elevation of 2,400 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
