Nelson Airport
Nelson, New Zealand — 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 NSN to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Nelson.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 132 km | 35m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 250 km | 44m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 495 km | 1h 02m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 550 km | 1h 06m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 2,099 km | 3h 02m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 2,309 km | 3h 17m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 2,398 km | 3h 24m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 2,458 km | 3h 28m |
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 2,648 km | 3h 43m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 3,094 km | 4h 16m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about NSN
What is the airport code for Nelson?
Nelson Airport uses the IATA code NSN and the ICAO code NZNS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Nelson Airport?
It sits at 41.2983° S, 173.2210° E, serving Nelson in New Zealand, at an elevation of 17 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
