Which side of the plane should I sit on to avoid the sun from Las Vegas (LAS) to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)?
On this route the shady side depends on the date as well as the time of day. Add a departure date to see yours.
Which side of the plane should I sit on to avoid the sun from Las Vegas (LAS) to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)?
On this route the shady side depends on the date as well as the time of day. Add a departure date to see yours.
Which side of the plane should I sit on to avoid the sun from Las Vegas (LAS) to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)?
On this route the shady side depends on the date as well as the time of day. Add a departure date to see yours.
Las Vegas → Dallas-Fort Worth
A medium flight within United States. Dallas-Fort Worth is 2 hours ahead. Turn your watch forward before you arrive.
Sin City
Las Vegas sits in a desert valley ringed by mountains, with the Strip's resort corridor forming a single dense spine surrounded by a much larger, ordinary, car-built city. Most visitors never see far beyond that corridor and the older casino blocks of downtown a few miles north. A short monorail runs along the Strip itself, but nothing rail-based reaches outside it, so getting anywhere off the Strip means a car, taxi, or rideshare. Summers are extremely hot and dry.
Surrounding hubs
| 1,009 km / 627 mi | |
| 380 km / 236 mi | |
| 411 km / 255 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
| 1,393 km / 866 mi | |
| 362 km / 225 mi | |
| 1,032 km / 641 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.
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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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