Victoria Harbour Seaplane Base is a seaplane base serving Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada. It has scheduled airline flights. Its IATA code, the three letters printed on tickets and baggage tags, is YWH.
Key facts
- IATA code
- YWH
- ICAO code
- CYWH
- City
- Victoria
- State or region
- British Columbia
- Country
- Canada
- Kind
- Seaplane base
- Coordinates
- 48.4238° N, 123.3720° W
- Elevation
- not listed
- Runways
- not listed
- Longest runway
- not listed
Airport codes
On a ticket or a baggage tag, YWH means Victoria Harbour Seaplane Base. Pilots and air traffic controllers use a different, four-letter ICAO code: CYWH. ICAO codes that begin with C belong to Canada. How the two kinds of code differ.
Where it is
The airport lies at 48.4238° N, 123.3720° W.
Local time
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Time zone America/Vancouver, taken from the nearest town in the data. Flight times on tickets are always in the local time of each airport.
Runways
The open data has no runway details for this airport.
Nearest airports with scheduled flights
| Airport | Code | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria International AirportVictoria | YYJ | 25 km |
| Roche Harbor AirportRoche Harbor, United States | RCE | 27 km |
| Friday Harbor AirportFriday Harbor, United States | FRD | 28 km |
| Friday Harbor Seaplane BaseFriday Harbor, United States | FBS | 30 km |
| Stuart Island AirparkFriday Harbor, United States | SSW | 31 km |
Distance to major airports
| To | Distance | Rough flying time |
|---|---|---|
| Delhi (DEL)India | 11,216 km | 14 h 00 min |
| Mumbai (BOM)India | 12,336 km | 15 h 20 min |
| Dubai (DXB)United Arab Emirates | 11,822 km | 14 h 45 min |
| London Heathrow (LHR)United Kingdom | 7,657 km | 9 h 45 min |
| New York JFK (JFK)United States | 3,953 km | 5 h 15 min |
| Los Angeles (LAX)United States | 1,662 km | 2 h 30 min |
| Singapore (SIN)Singapore | 12,852 km | 16 h 00 min |
| Tokyo Haneda (HND)Japan | 7,589 km | 9 h 40 min |
| Sydney (SYD)Australia | 12,450 km | 15 h 30 min |
Distances are the shortest path over the globe, worked out from the coordinates. Flying times are rough estimates for a direct jet flight. They do not mean that a direct flight exists. Work out the distance to any airport.
Links
Airport data: OurAirports, as downloaded on 11 November 2026. This page does not show live flights, terminals or airlines. For those, use the airport's or the airline's own site. See About and data sources.