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Flying from Las Vegas to Dallas-Fort Worth?

Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.

About this route

Las VegasDallas-Fort Worth

A medium flight within United States. Dallas-Fort Worth is 2 hours ahead. Turn your watch forward before you arrive.

Route type Domestic
Distance 1,695 km / 1,053 mi
Distance class Medium-haul
Direction East-southeast
Est. duration About 2h 20m
Time change Destination +2h

Departing from

LAS

Harry Reid International Airport

Location Las Vegas, United States
Time zone PDT · UTC−7
Current time

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

Arriving at

DFW

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

Location Dallas-Fort Worth, United States
Time zone CDT · UTC−5
Current time

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
How it works

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.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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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