Polokwane International Airport
Polokwane, South Africa — 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 PTG to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Polokwane.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 283 km | 46m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 662 km | 1h 15m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 1,542 km | 2h 20m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 2,631 km | 3h 41m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,927 km | 4h 03m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,512 km | 4h 47m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 3,788 km | 5h 08m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,377 km | 5h 51m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,414 km | 5h 54m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,587 km | 6h 07m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about PTG
What is the airport code for Polokwane?
Polokwane International Airport uses the IATA code PTG and the ICAO code FAPP. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Polokwane International Airport?
It sits at 23.8453° S, 29.4586° E, serving Polokwane in South Africa, at an elevation of 4,076 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
