La Tontouta International Airport
Nouméa (La Tontouta), New Caledonia — 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 NOU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Nouméa (La Tontouta).
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 1,265 km | 1h 59m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 1,450 km | 2h 13m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 1,450 km | 2h 13m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 1,860 km | 2h 44m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 1,981 km | 2h 53m |
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 2,218 km | 3h 11m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 2,293 km | 3h 16m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 2,458 km | 3h 28m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 2,568 km | 3h 37m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 2,686 km | 3h 45m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in New Caledonia
Questions about NOU
What is the airport code for Nouméa (La Tontouta)?
La Tontouta International Airport uses the IATA code NOU and the ICAO code NWWW. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is La Tontouta International Airport?
It sits at 22.0146° S, 166.2130° E, serving Nouméa (La Tontouta) in New Caledonia, at an elevation of 52 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
