Williston Basin International Airport
Williston, 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 XWA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Williston.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 887 km | 1h 31m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 937 km | 1h 35m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 1,055 km | 1h 44m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 1,384 km | 2h 08m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 1,422 km | 2h 11m |
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 1,425 km | 2h 11m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 1,445 km | 2h 13m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 1,644 km | 2h 28m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 1,726 km | 2h 34m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 1,786 km | 2h 38m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about XWA
What is the airport code for Williston?
Williston Basin International Airport uses the IATA code XWA and the ICAO code KXWA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Williston Basin International Airport?
It sits at 48.2609° N, 103.7512° W, serving Williston in United States, at an elevation of 2,344 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
