Walvis Bay International Airport
Walvis Bay(Rooikop), Namibia — 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 WVB to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Walvis Bay(Rooikop).
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 1,282 km | 2h 01m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 1,419 km | 2h 11m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 1,798 km | 2h 39m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 3,404 km | 4h 39m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 3,510 km | 4h 47m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 3,563 km | 4h 51m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 3,646 km | 4h 57m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,420 km | 5h 55m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 4,440 km | 5h 56m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 4,835 km | 6h 26m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Namibia
Questions about WVB
What is the airport code for Walvis Bay(Rooikop)?
Walvis Bay International Airport uses the IATA code WVB and the ICAO code FYWB. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Walvis Bay International Airport?
It sits at 22.9793° S, 14.6471° E, serving Walvis Bay(Rooikop) in Namibia, at an elevation of 299 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
