Santa Barbara Municipal Airport
Santa Barbara, United States — 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 SBA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Santa Barbara.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 142 km | 36m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 309 km | 48m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 422 km | 57m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 464 km | 1h 00m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 731 km | 1h 20m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 989 km | 1h 39m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 1,463 km | 2h 14m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,471 km | 2h 15m |
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 1,665 km | 2h 29m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 2,113 km | 3h 03m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SBA
What is the airport code for Santa Barbara?
Santa Barbara Municipal Airport uses the IATA code SBA and the ICAO code KSBA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Santa Barbara Municipal Airport?
It sits at 34.4262° N, 119.8400° W, serving Santa Barbara in United States, at an elevation of 13 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
