Powell River Airport
Powell River, Canada — 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 YPW to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Powell River.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 119 km | 34m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 310 km | 48m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 1,369 km | 2h 07m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 1,400 km | 2h 10m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 1,705 km | 2h 32m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 1,836 km | 2h 42m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,907 km | 2h 47m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 1,995 km | 2h 54m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 2,092 km | 3h 01m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 2,401 km | 3h 24m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about YPW
What is the airport code for Powell River?
Powell River Airport uses the IATA code YPW and the ICAO code CYPW. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Powell River Airport?
It sits at 49.8342° N, 124.5000° W, serving Powell River in Canada, at an elevation of 425 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
