Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport
Ndola, Zambia — 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 NLA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Ndola.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 1,465 km | 2h 14m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 1,592 km | 2h 24m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 1,871 km | 2h 45m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 2,542 km | 3h 35m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 2,691 km | 3h 46m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,104 km | 4h 17m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,210 km | 4h 24m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 3,388 km | 4h 38m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 3,531 km | 4h 48m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 3,782 km | 5h 07m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about NLA
What is the airport code for Ndola?
Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport uses the IATA code NLA and the ICAO code FLSK. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport?
It sits at 12.9651° S, 28.5156° E, serving Ndola in Zambia, at an elevation of 4,308 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
