Nelson Mandela International Airport
Praia, Cabo Verde — 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 RAI to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Praia.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casablanca, Morocco | CMN | 2,600 km | 3h 39m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 2,751 km | 3h 50m |
| Lisbon, Portugal | LIS | 3,000 km | 4h 09m |
| Málaga, Spain | AGP | 3,061 km | 4h 13m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 3,069 km | 4h 14m |
| Porto, Portugal | OPO | 3,255 km | 4h 28m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 3,406 km | 4h 39m |
| Madrid, Spain | MAD | 3,433 km | 4h 41m |
| Algiers, Algeria | ALG | 3,581 km | 4h 52m |
| Palma de Mallorca, Spain | PMI | 3,741 km | 5h 04m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Cabo Verde
Questions about RAI
What is the airport code for Praia?
Nelson Mandela International Airport uses the IATA code RAI and the ICAO code GVNP. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Nelson Mandela International Airport?
It sits at 14.9411° N, 23.4847° W, serving Praia in Cabo Verde, at an elevation of 230 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
