Richards Bay Airport
Richards Bay, 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 RCB to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Richards Bay.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 135 km | 35m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 477 km | 1h 01m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 1,405 km | 2h 10m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,741 km | 3h 49m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 3,092 km | 4h 16m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,642 km | 4h 57m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,256 km | 5h 42m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,972 km | 6h 36m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,992 km | 6h 37m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 5,148 km | 6h 49m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about RCB
What is the airport code for Richards Bay?
Richards Bay Airport uses the IATA code RCB and the ICAO code FARB. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Richards Bay Airport?
It sits at 28.7410° S, 32.0921° E, serving Richards Bay in South Africa, at an elevation of 109 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
