London Southend Airport
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom — 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 SEN to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| London, United Kingdom | LGW | 77 km | 31m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 81 km | 31m |
| Zaventem, Belgium | BRU | 274 km | 46m |
| Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom | MAN | 282 km | 46m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 291 km | 47m |
| Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), France | CDG | 314 km | 49m |
| Paris (Orly, Val-de-Marne), France | ORY | 337 km | 50m |
| Düsseldorf, Germany | DUS | 422 km | 57m |
| Luxembourg, Luxembourg | LUX | 445 km | 58m |
| Köln (Cologne), Germany | CGN | 456 km | 59m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SEN
What is the airport code for Southend-on-Sea, Essex?
London Southend Airport uses the IATA code SEN and the ICAO code EGMC. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is London Southend Airport?
It sits at 51.5706° N, 0.6936° E, serving Southend-on-Sea, Essex in United Kingdom, at an elevation of 49 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
