Mtwara Airport
Mtwara, Tanzania — 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 MYW to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Mtwara.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 1,065 km | 1h 45m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 1,804 km | 2h 40m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 2,153 km | 3h 06m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 2,159 km | 3h 06m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,183 km | 3h 08m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 2,341 km | 3h 20m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 3,425 km | 4h 40m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 3,562 km | 4h 51m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 3,988 km | 5h 22m |
| Malé, Maldives | MLE | 4,030 km | 5h 26m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Tanzania
Questions about MYW
What is the airport code for Mtwara?
Mtwara Airport uses the IATA code MYW and the ICAO code HTMT. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Mtwara Airport?
It sits at 10.3362° S, 40.1820° E, serving Mtwara in Tanzania, at an elevation of 371 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
