Memphis International Airport
Memphis, 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 MEM to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Memphis.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 322 km | 49m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 533 km | 1h 05m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 693 km | 1h 17m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 754 km | 1h 21m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 774 km | 1h 23m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 792 km | 1h 24m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 821 km | 1h 26m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 899 km | 1h 32m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 982 km | 1h 38m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 1,055 km | 1h 44m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MEM
What is the airport code for Memphis?
Memphis International Airport uses the IATA code MEM and the ICAO code KMEM. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Memphis International Airport?
It sits at 35.0438° N, 89.9763° W, serving Memphis in United States, at an elevation of 341 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
