Maafaru International Airport
Noonu Atoll, Maldives — 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 NMF to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Noonu Atoll.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malé, Maldives | MLE | 181 km | 39m |
| Kochi, India | COK | 580 km | 1h 08m |
| Colombo, Sri Lanka | CMB | 725 km | 1h 19m |
| Bengaluru, India | BLR | 943 km | 1h 35m |
| Vasco da Gama, India | GOI | 1,064 km | 1h 45m |
| Chennai, India | MAA | 1,084 km | 1h 46m |
| Hyderabad, India | HYD | 1,379 km | 2h 08m |
| Pune, India | PNQ | 1,420 km | 2h 11m |
| Mumbai, India | BOM | 1,477 km | 2h 15m |
| Ahmedabad, India | AMD | 1,921 km | 2h 48m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Maldives
Questions about NMF
What is the airport code for Noonu Atoll?
Maafaru International Airport uses the IATA code NMF and the ICAO code VRDA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Maafaru International Airport?
It sits at 5.8174° N, 73.4684° E, serving Noonu Atoll in Maldives, at an elevation of 6 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
