Sainte Marie Airport
Vohilava, Madagascar — 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 SMS to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Vohilava.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 907 km | 1h 33m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 1,514 km | 2h 18m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 2,250 km | 3h 13m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 2,357 km | 3h 21m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 2,441 km | 3h 27m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 3,142 km | 4h 19m |
| Malé, Maldives | MLE | 3,519 km | 4h 47m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 3,628 km | 4h 56m |
| Kochi, India | COK | 4,209 km | 5h 39m |
| Colombo, Sri Lanka | CMB | 4,267 km | 5h 43m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SMS
What is the airport code for Vohilava?
Sainte Marie Airport uses the IATA code SMS and the ICAO code FMMS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Sainte Marie Airport?
It sits at 17.0939° S, 49.8158° E, serving Vohilava in Madagascar, at an elevation of 7 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
