Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport
Ottawa, Canada — 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 YOW to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Ottawa.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montréal, Canada | YUL | 151 km | 36m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 363 km | 52m |
| Boston, United States | BOS | 498 km | 1h 02m |
| New York, United States | LGA | 526 km | 1h 04m |
| Newark, United States | EWR | 529 km | 1h 05m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 543 km | 1h 06m |
| Philadelphia, United States | PHL | 607 km | 1h 10m |
| Baltimore, United States | BWI | 688 km | 1h 17m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 707 km | 1h 18m |
| Dulles, United States | IAD | 724 km | 1h 19m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about YOW
What is the airport code for Ottawa?
Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport uses the IATA code YOW and the ICAO code CYOW. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport?
It sits at 45.3225° N, 75.6692° W, serving Ottawa in Canada, at an elevation of 374 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
