Sharjah International Airport
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates — 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 SHJ to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Sharjah.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 17 km | 26m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 132 km | 35m |
| Muscat/Seeb, Oman | MCT | 340 km | 51m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 393 km | 54m |
| Manama, Bahrain | BAH | 500 km | 1h 02m |
| Kuwait City, Kuwait | KWI | 862 km | 1h 29m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 888 km | 1h 31m |
| Karachi, Pakistan | KHI | 1,173 km | 1h 53m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 1,716 km | 2h 33m |
| Ahmedabad, India | AMD | 1,753 km | 2h 36m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in United Arab Emirates
Questions about SHJ
What is the airport code for Sharjah?
Sharjah International Airport uses the IATA code SHJ and the ICAO code OMSJ. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Sharjah International Airport?
It sits at 25.3286° N, 55.5172° E, serving Sharjah in United Arab Emirates, at an elevation of 111 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
