Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz International Airport
Qassim, Saudi Arabia — 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 ELQ to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Qassim.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 329 km | 50m |
| Kuwait City, Kuwait | KWI | 525 km | 1h 04m |
| Manama, Bahrain | BAH | 684 km | 1h 16m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 696 km | 1h 17m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 793 km | 1h 24m |
| Amman, Jordan | AMM | 967 km | 1h 37m |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | TLV | 1,071 km | 1h 45m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 1,112 km | 1h 48m |
| Beirut, Lebanon | BEY | 1,154 km | 1h 51m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 1,167 km | 1h 52m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about ELQ
What is the airport code for Qassim?
Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz International Airport uses the IATA code ELQ and the ICAO code OEGS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz International Airport?
It sits at 26.3028° N, 43.7744° E, serving Qassim in Saudi Arabia, at an elevation of 2,126 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
