Sharm El Sheikh International Airport
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt — 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 SSH to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Sharm El Sheikh.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairo, Egypt | CAI | 376 km | 53m |
| Amman, Jordan | AMM | 444 km | 58m |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | TLV | 451 km | 59m |
| Beirut, Lebanon | BEY | 658 km | 1h 14m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 849 km | 1h 28m |
| Antalya, Turkey | AYT | 1,048 km | 1h 43m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 1,269 km | 2h 00m |
| Kuwait City, Kuwait | KWI | 1,332 km | 2h 04m |
| Spata-Artemida, Greece | ATH | 1,473 km | 2h 15m |
| Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey | SAW | 1,510 km | 2h 18m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SSH
What is the airport code for Sharm El Sheikh?
Sharm El Sheikh International Airport uses the IATA code SSH and the ICAO code HESH. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Sharm El Sheikh International Airport?
It sits at 27.9773° N, 34.3947° E, serving Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, at an elevation of 191 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
