Des Moines International Airport
Des Moines, 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 DSM to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Des Moines.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 374 km | 53m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 480 km | 1h 01m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 491 km | 1h 02m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 852 km | 1h 29m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 856 km | 1h 29m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 947 km | 1h 36m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 1,006 km | 1h 40m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 1,171 km | 1h 52m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 1,195 km | 1h 54m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 1,293 km | 2h 02m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about DSM
What is the airport code for Des Moines?
Des Moines International Airport uses the IATA code DSM and the ICAO code KDSM. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Des Moines International Airport?
It sits at 41.5340° N, 93.6567° W, serving Des Moines in United States, at an elevation of 958 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
