Townsville Airport / RAAF Base Townsville
Townsville, Australia — 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 TSV to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Townsville.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 285 km | 46m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 1,112 km | 1h 48m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 1,205 km | 1h 55m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 1,691 km | 2h 31m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 1,924 km | 2h 49m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 2,056 km | 2h 58m |
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 3,234 km | 4h 26m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 3,362 km | 4h 36m |
| Perth, Australia | PER | 3,379 km | 4h 37m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 3,510 km | 4h 47m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about TSV
What is the airport code for Townsville?
Townsville Airport / RAAF Base Townsville uses the IATA code TSV and the ICAO code YBTL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Townsville Airport / RAAF Base Townsville?
It sits at 19.2529° S, 146.7665° E, serving Townsville in Australia, at an elevation of 18 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
