Yellowknife International Airport
Yellowknife, Canada — 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 YZF to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Yellowknife.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 1,570 km | 2h 22m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 1,741 km | 2h 35m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 2,379 km | 3h 23m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 2,416 km | 3h 25m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 2,597 km | 3h 39m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 2,815 km | 3h 55m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 2,865 km | 3h 59m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 2,890 km | 4h 01m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 2,934 km | 4h 04m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 3,030 km | 4h 11m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about YZF
What is the airport code for Yellowknife?
Yellowknife International Airport uses the IATA code YZF and the ICAO code CYZF. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Yellowknife International Airport?
It sits at 62.4628° N, 114.4400° W, serving Yellowknife in Canada, at an elevation of 675 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
