Grand Forks International Airport
Grand Forks, 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 GFK to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Grand Forks.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 456 km | 59m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 985 km | 1h 39m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 1,009 km | 1h 40m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,080 km | 1h 46m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 1,256 km | 1h 59m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 1,417 km | 2h 11m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 1,437 km | 2h 12m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 1,572 km | 2h 22m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 1,674 km | 2h 30m |
| Montréal, Canada | YUL | 1,801 km | 2h 39m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about GFK
What is the airport code for Grand Forks?
Grand Forks International Airport uses the IATA code GFK and the ICAO code KGFK. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Grand Forks International Airport?
It sits at 47.9493° N, 97.1761° W, serving Grand Forks in United States, at an elevation of 845 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
