Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International Airport
Winnipeg, 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 YWG to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Winnipeg.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 636 km | 1h 13m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 1,138 km | 1h 50m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 1,163 km | 1h 52m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,260 km | 1h 59m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 1,367 km | 2h 07m |
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 1,504 km | 2h 17m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 1,530 km | 2h 19m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 1,753 km | 2h 36m |
| Montréal, Canada | YUL | 1,818 km | 2h 41m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 1,852 km | 2h 43m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about YWG
What is the airport code for Winnipeg?
Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International Airport uses the IATA code YWG and the ICAO code CYWG. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Winnipeg / James Armstrong Richardson International Airport?
It sits at 49.9100° N, 97.2399° W, serving Winnipeg in Canada, at an elevation of 783 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
