La Palma Airport
Sta Cruz de la Palma, La Palma Island, Spain — 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 SPC to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Sta Cruz de la Palma, La Palma Island.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casablanca, Morocco | CMN | 1,102 km | 1h 47m |
| Lisbon, Portugal | LIS | 1,381 km | 2h 08m |
| Málaga, Spain | AGP | 1,528 km | 2h 19m |
| Porto, Portugal | OPO | 1,627 km | 2h 26m |
| Madrid, Spain | MAD | 1,847 km | 2h 43m |
| Algiers, Algeria | ALG | 2,152 km | 3h 06m |
| Palma de Mallorca, Spain | PMI | 2,236 km | 3h 12m |
| Barcelona, Spain | BCN | 2,282 km | 3h 15m |
| Tunis, Tunisia | TUN | 2,760 km | 3h 51m |
| Paris (Orly, Val-de-Marne), France | ORY | 2,818 km | 3h 55m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SPC
What is the airport code for Sta Cruz de la Palma, La Palma Island?
La Palma Airport uses the IATA code SPC and the ICAO code GCLA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is La Palma Airport?
It sits at 28.6265° N, 17.7556° W, serving Sta Cruz de la Palma, La Palma Island in Spain, at an elevation of 107 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
