Hihifo Airport
Wallis Island, WF — 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 WLS to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Wallis Island.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 847 km | 1h 28m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 2,791 km | 3h 53m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 3,243 km | 4h 27m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 3,532 km | 4h 48m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 3,546 km | 4h 49m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 3,551 km | 4h 50m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 3,810 km | 5h 09m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 4,014 km | 5h 24m |
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 4,100 km | 5h 31m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 4,709 km | 6h 16m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about WLS
What is the airport code for Wallis Island?
Hihifo Airport uses the IATA code WLS and the ICAO code NLWW. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Hihifo Airport?
It sits at 13.2394° S, 176.1986° W, serving Wallis Island in WF, at an elevation of 79 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
