Tikehau Airport
Tuherahera, French Polynesia — 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 TIH to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Tuherahera.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 3,668 km | 4h 59m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 4,380 km | 5h 52m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 4,590 km | 6h 07m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 4,868 km | 6h 28m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 5,214 km | 6h 54m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 6,137 km | 8h 03m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 6,175 km | 8h 05m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 6,261 km | 8h 12m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 6,304 km | 8h 15m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 6,382 km | 8h 21m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about TIH
What is the airport code for Tuherahera?
Tikehau Airport uses the IATA code TIH and the ICAO code NTGC. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Tikehau Airport?
It sits at 15.1196° S, 148.2310° W, serving Tuherahera in French Polynesia, at an elevation of 6 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
