Upington Airport
Upington, South Africa — 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 UTN to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Upington.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 669 km | 1h 15m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 734 km | 1h 20m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 968 km | 1h 37m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 3,440 km | 4h 42m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,777 km | 5h 07m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,339 km | 5h 49m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,423 km | 5h 55m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,424 km | 5h 55m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 4,474 km | 5h 59m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,563 km | 6h 05m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about UTN
What is the airport code for Upington?
Upington Airport uses the IATA code UTN and the ICAO code FAUP. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Upington Airport?
It sits at 28.4002° S, 21.2636° E, serving Upington in South Africa, at an elevation of 2,782 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
