Wake Island Airfield
Wake Island, UM — 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 AWK to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Wake Island.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narita, Japan | NRT | 3,154 km | 4h 20m |
| Tokyo, Japan | HND | 3,191 km | 4h 23m |
| Tokoname, Japan | NGO | 3,404 km | 4h 39m |
| Sapporo, Japan | CTS | 3,505 km | 4h 46m |
| Osaka, Japan | KIX | 3,519 km | 4h 47m |
| Fukuoka, Japan | FUK | 3,912 km | 5h 17m |
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 4,285 km | 5h 45m |
| Seoul, South Korea | GMP | 4,350 km | 5h 49m |
| Seoul, South Korea | ICN | 4,376 km | 5h 51m |
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 4,624 km | 6h 10m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about AWK
What is the airport code for Wake Island?
Wake Island Airfield uses the IATA code AWK and the ICAO code PWAK. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Wake Island Airfield?
It sits at 19.2824° N, 166.6366° E, serving Wake Island in UM, at an elevation of 14 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
