São Jorge Airport
Velas, Portugal — 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 SJZ to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Velas.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon, Portugal | LIS | 1,649 km | 2h 28m |
| Porto, Portugal | OPO | 1,683 km | 2h 31m |
| Casablanca, Morocco | CMN | 1,938 km | 2h 50m |
| Málaga, Spain | AGP | 2,090 km | 3h 01m |
| Madrid, Spain | MAD | 2,111 km | 3h 03m |
| Dublin, Ireland | DUB | 2,339 km | 3h 20m |
| Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom | MAN | 2,557 km | 3h 36m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 2,577 km | 3h 37m |
| London, United Kingdom | LGW | 2,581 km | 3h 38m |
| Barcelona, Spain | BCN | 2,581 km | 3h 38m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SJZ
What is the airport code for Velas?
São Jorge Airport uses the IATA code SJZ and the ICAO code LPSJ. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is São Jorge Airport?
It sits at 38.6655° N, 28.1758° W, serving Velas in Portugal, at an elevation of 311 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
