Direct Flights from Honolulu to Kaunakakai
Kaunakakai · Hawaii
Nonstop service from HNL to MKK on Southern Airways Express. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
This is a rare nonstop: only 3 cities fly direct to Kaunakakai, and Honolulu is one of them. From anywhere else you'd be connecting.
How long to go to Kaunakakai for, from Honolulu
35m in the air, 55 miles: short enough that a single night in Kaunakakai is worth it, and a day trip is not absurd.
With roughly 18 departures a day, you are not tied to one flight: if a meeting overruns or the weather turns, there is another one behind it.
About Kaunakakai
Molokaʻi is the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Kaunakakai
- The Lahaina Heritage Museum was a heritage museum and history museum located in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.
- Lahaina Banyan Court Park is a public park in the town of Lahaina, Hawaii, The 1.94 acres (0.79 ha) park, also known as Lahaina Courthouse Square and commonly called Banyan Tree Park, contains multiple heritage sites.
- Puʻupehe Platform, also known Puʻu Pehe and in tourist literature as Sweetheart Rock, is a triangular sea stack 150 feet off the peninsula separating Mānele Bay and Hulopoʻe Bay on the island of Lānaʻi, Hawaiʻi.
- Mokuʻula was a tiny island in Maluʻulu o Lele Park, Lahaina, Hawaiʻi, United States. It was the private residence of King Kamehameha III from 1837 to 1845 and the burial site of several Hawaiian royals.
- Palaʻau State Park, the sole state park on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, offers a panoramic view of the Kalaupapa settlement and its historical leper colony.
- Kaunolū Village Site is located on the south coast of the island of Lānaʻi. This former fishing village, abandoned in the 1880s, is the largest surviving ruins of a prehistoric Hawaiian village.
- The Hōkūkano-ʻUalapuʻe Complex is a National Historic Landmarked pre-contact archaeological site on several properties adjacent to Hawaii Route 450 in ʻUalapuʻe, on Molokaʻi island.
- Archeological Sites at Kawela are a number of archeological sites at or near the settlement of Kawela on the southern coast of Molokaʻi, the northernmost of the islands of Maui County, Hawaii.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Kaunakakai weather, compared with Honolulu
Within 2° of Honolulu on the annual average, so pack much as you would at home — but the two cities do not track each other month to month:
- January
- Kaunakakai 78°F · Honolulu 80°F · 2° colder
- April
- Kaunakakai 80°F · Honolulu 83°F · 3° colder
- July
- Kaunakakai 85°F · Honolulu 88°F · 3° colder
- October
- Kaunakakai 85°F · Honolulu 87°F · 2° colder
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Kaunakakai
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Kaunakakai is December–May, when daytime highs are a comfortable 78–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Three or four days is enough to take in Kaunakakai's highlights, from Lahaina Heritage Museum, Lahaina Banyan Court Park, and Puʻupehe Platform and more.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Honolulu to Kaunakakai?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Honolulu (HNL) to Kaunakakai (MKK) on Southern Airways Express.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Honolulu to Kaunakakai?
- Southern Airways Express flies nonstop between Honolulu (HNL) and Kaunakakai (MKK).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Honolulu to Kaunakakai?
- There are about 18 nonstop departures per day (roughly 126 per week) from Honolulu to Kaunakakai.
- How far is Kaunakakai from Honolulu?
- Kaunakakai is about 55 miles from Honolulu by air.
- What is there to do in Kaunakakai?
- Popular things to do include Lahaina Heritage Museum, Lahaina Banyan Court Park, Puʻupehe Platform, Mokuʻula, and more.
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