Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey — 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 SAW
| Destination | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 64 km | 30m |
| Antalya, Turkey | AYT | 463 km | 1h 00m |
| Otopeni, Romania | OTP | 485 km | 1h 01m |
| Sofia, Bulgaria | SOF | 528 km | 1h 05m |
| Spata-Artemida, Greece | ATH | 566 km | 1h 07m |
| Belgrade, Serbia | BEG | 853 km | 1h 29m |
| Beirut, Lebanon | BEY | 957 km | 1h 37m |
| Budapest, Hungary | BUD | 1,080 km | 1h 46m |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | TLV | 1,106 km | 1h 48m |
| Amman, Jordan | AMM | 1,182 km | 1h 53m |
| Velika Gorica, Croatia | ZAG | 1,197 km | 1h 54m |
| Cairo, Egypt | CAI | 1,214 km | 1h 56m |
| Balice, Poland | KRK | 1,260 km | 1h 59m |
| Napoli, Italy | NAP | 1,261 km | 1h 59m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 2,551 km | 3h 35m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 8,090 km | 10h 28m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 11,061 km | 14h 10m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 2,968 km | 4h 06m |
| Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), France | CDG | 2,275 km | 3h 15m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 2,246 km | 3h 13m |
| Frankfurt am Main, Germany | FRA | 1,901 km | 2h 47m |
| Singapore, Singapore | SIN | 8,627 km | 11h 08m |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | HKG | 7,971 km | 10h 19m |
| Narita, Japan | NRT | 8,970 km | 11h 34m |
| Seoul, South Korea | ICN | 7,907 km | 10h 15m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 2,694 km | 3h 46m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 14,918 km | 18h 57m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 8,848 km | 11h 25m |
| Beijing, China | PEK | 7,042 km | 9h 10m |
| Baku, Azerbaijan | GYD | 1,745 km | 2h 35m |
| Tbilisi, Georgia | TBS | 1,308 km | 2h 03m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SAW
What is the airport code for Pendik, Istanbul?
Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport uses the IATA code SAW and the ICAO code LTFJ. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport?
It sits at 40.8986° N, 29.3092° E, serving Pendik, Istanbul in Turkey, at an elevation of 312 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
