William P. Hobby Airport
Houston, 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 HOU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Houston.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston, United States | IAH | 38 km | 28m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 238 km | 43m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 398 km | 55m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 1,078 km | 1h 46m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 1,118 km | 1h 49m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 1,198 km | 1h 54m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 1,255 km | 1h 59m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 1,275 km | 2h 00m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 1,364 km | 2h 07m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,422 km | 2h 11m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about HOU
What is the airport code for Houston?
William P. Hobby Airport uses the IATA code HOU and the ICAO code KHOU. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is William P. Hobby Airport?
It sits at 29.6453° N, 95.2768° W, serving Houston in United States, at an elevation of 46 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
