Chicago Rockford International Airport
Chicago/Rockford, United States — 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 RFD to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Chicago/Rockford.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 101 km | 33m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 120 km | 34m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 447 km | 58m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 473 km | 1h 00m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 706 km | 1h 18m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 788 km | 1h 24m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 1,036 km | 1h 42m |
| Dulles, United States | IAD | 1,047 km | 1h 43m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 1,049 km | 1h 43m |
| Washington, United States | DCA | 1,084 km | 1h 46m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about RFD
What is the airport code for Chicago/Rockford?
Chicago Rockford International Airport uses the IATA code RFD and the ICAO code KRFD. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Chicago Rockford International Airport?
It sits at 42.1954° N, 89.0972° W, serving Chicago/Rockford in United States, at an elevation of 742 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
