Flying from Atlanta to Dallas-Fort Worth?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from Atlanta to Dallas-Fort Worth?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from Atlanta to Dallas-Fort Worth?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Atlanta → Dallas-Fort Worth
A short flight within United States. You gain 1 hour on arrival.
Capital of the New South
Atlanta sprawls across a wooded plateau in north Georgia, a fast-growing, low-rise metro where the suburbs run far past the core. It is a driving city: traffic on the perimeter highway is a daily fact of life, and rail covers only part of the region. Downtown holds the business district and civil-rights history, but much of the city lives in scattered neighborhoods and edge towns, so distances are large and the car usually wins.
Surrounding hubs
| 365 km / 227 mi | |
| 651 km / 405 mi | |
| 655 km / 407 mi |
Big, flat, and spread wide
Dallas-Fort Worth is two cities and a wide tangle of suburbs across the flat north Texas plain, with the airport set between them. It is one of the most car-dependent big metros in the country: the freeways are broad, the distances long, and transit thin outside the centers. Dallas leans corporate and polished while Fort Worth keeps more of its western character, and most of the region is the sprawl in between.
Surrounding hubs
| 362 km / 225 mi | |
| 1,032 km / 641 mi | |
| 1,291 km / 802 mi |
Find out which side of the plane to sit on.
Pick your airports, set your departure time, and you're done.
We calculate the sun's position based on your flight path and departure time, then tell you which side of the plane gets direct sun and which stays shaded. No guessing, just math.
Enter your flight
Pick your departure and arrival airports and set your departure time at the departure airport. FlightSide estimates the duration and you can adjust it if you know the exact schedule.
We track the sun along your route
Your flight path is broken into hundreds of points. At each one we check where the sun is and which side of the plane it faces.
You get a recommendation
Which side of the plane to sit on, left or right, depending on whether you'd rather avoid the sun or enjoy it. The percentages and the map are there if you want to see why.
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Notes from the product.
Small updates, route observations, and clearer explanations for how the app keeps evolving.
Type less, wait less, wonder more
Airport search now understands metro codes and old city names, FlightSide loads noticeably faster, and a new Feeling lucky button chooses a flight for anyone without one in mind.
A closer look at the route, not just the seat
FlightSide now shows the two cities and key details about the flight alongside the seat recommendation: confirm you picked the right airports, read the time change off two clocks, and check the return leg.
It's all about the sun (after all)
Not all sunlight reaches the side windows. FlightSide now weighs the sun’s angle to the cabin and shows twilight along the route.