Raleigh-Durham International Airport
Raleigh/Durham, 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 RDU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Raleigh/Durham.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 209 km | 41m |
| Dulles, United States | IAD | 361 km | 52m |
| Washington, United States | DCA | 365 km | 52m |
| Baltimore, United States | BWI | 411 km | 56m |
| Philadelphia, United States | PHL | 542 km | 1h 06m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 572 km | 1h 08m |
| Newark, United States | EWR | 669 km | 1h 15m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 686 km | 1h 16m |
| New York, United States | LGA | 693 km | 1h 17m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 710 km | 1h 18m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about RDU
What is the airport code for Raleigh/Durham?
Raleigh-Durham International Airport uses the IATA code RDU and the ICAO code KRDU. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Raleigh-Durham International Airport?
It sits at 35.8787° N, 78.7873° W, serving Raleigh/Durham in United States, at an elevation of 435 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
