Dane County Regional Truax Field
Madison, 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 MSN to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Madison.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 174 km | 38m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 199 km | 40m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 366 km | 52m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 500 km | 1h 02m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 786 km | 1h 24m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 813 km | 1h 26m |
| Dulles, United States | IAD | 1,099 km | 1h 47m |
| Washington, United States | DCA | 1,136 km | 1h 50m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 1,139 km | 1h 50m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 1,140 km | 1h 50m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MSN
What is the airport code for Madison?
Dane County Regional Truax Field uses the IATA code MSN and the ICAO code KMSN. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Dane County Regional Truax Field?
It sits at 43.1399° N, 89.3375° W, serving Madison in United States, at an elevation of 887 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
