Flying from Dublin to New York City?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from Dublin to New York City?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from Dublin to New York City?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Dublin → New York City
A long flight from Ireland to United States. You gain 5 hours on arrival.
The fair city
Dublin is a compact capital on Ireland's east coast, built along the River Liffey, with a historic Georgian core that is easy to explore on foot. The city runs on a mix of bus, tram, and a coastal rail line, dense enough in the center that a car is rarely worth the trouble. Pub culture and a strong literary history run deep here, alongside a fast-growing tech and pharmaceutical industry that has reshaped its economy in recent decades. Weather is mild and famously changeable, often within the same afternoon.
City access
Dublin Airport has no rail link of its own, unusual for a capital this size; a long-planned metro line was only approved in 2025 and remains years from construction. Express buses reach the city center in thirty to forty-five minutes depending on traffic, and taxis or rideshares cover the rest. Build extra time into the journey at peak hours, since the airport relies entirely on the road network.
Surrounding hubs
| 264 km / 164 mi | |
| 336 km / 209 mi | |
| 449 km / 279 mi |
The city that never sleeps
New York is a dense five-borough city served by three major airports: JFK and LaGuardia in Queens, and Newark Liberty across the Hudson in New Jersey. Manhattan carries the main business districts, museums, theaters, and postcard skyline, but Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island are not side notes; they are much of the city. A car is rarely useful for visitors once they are inside the core. Airport choice matters here because each airport starts the ground trip from a different edge of the region.
City access
JFK sits in southern Queens, on the New York side of the state line. The AirTrain links every terminal to the subway and the Long Island Rail Road at Jamaica and Howard Beach, so central Manhattan is a train ride with one change rather than a one-seat trip. Allow around an hour to Midtown by rail, and longer by taxi once traffic builds.
Nearby airports
| 17 km / 11 mi | |
| 33 km / 21 mi | |
| 151 km / 94 mi |
Surrounding hubs
| 295 km / 183 mi | |
| 300 km / 186 mi | |
| 342 km / 213 mi |
Find out which side of the plane to sit on.
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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.