Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport
Rock Springs, 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 RKS to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Rock Springs.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 260 km | 45m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 417 km | 56m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 808 km | 1h 25m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 943 km | 1h 36m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 1,181 km | 1h 53m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 1,219 km | 1h 56m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 1,221 km | 1h 56m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 1,233 km | 1h 57m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 1,332 km | 2h 04m |
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 1,385 km | 2h 08m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about RKS
What is the airport code for Rock Springs?
Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport uses the IATA code RKS and the ICAO code KRKS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport?
It sits at 41.5942° N, 109.0650° W, serving Rock Springs in United States, at an elevation of 6,764 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
