New Plymouth Airport
New Plymouth, 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 NPL to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from New Plymouth.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 228 km | 42m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 263 km | 45m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 517 km | 1h 04m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 805 km | 1h 25m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 2,126 km | 3h 04m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 2,254 km | 3h 13m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 2,338 km | 3h 19m |
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 2,383 km | 3h 23m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 2,552 km | 3h 35m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 3,178 km | 4h 22m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about NPL
What is the airport code for New Plymouth?
New Plymouth Airport uses the IATA code NPL and the ICAO code NZNP. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is New Plymouth Airport?
It sits at 39.0086° S, 174.1790° E, serving New Plymouth in New Zealand, at an elevation of 97 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
