Flight Time Between Cities and Arrival Time

Choose the departure and arrival cities — the duration appears as the large figure. It is block time: from pushing back at the gate to arriving at the gate on the other end, which is the number printed in the timetable.

We model a nonstop flight along the shortest path. A real flight may route around closed airspace, queue for departure, fly a different level or involve a connection, and airlines build padding into schedules. A 10–20 minute difference on a long flight is normal.

Enter the departure time and the tool shows the landing time in the destination’s zone. If the flight crosses midnight, a "next day" marker appears. Daylight saving is handled automatically because the calculation uses the time-zone name rather than a fixed offset.

At cruising altitude in mid-latitudes the jet stream blows from west to east. An eastbound flight rides a tailwind and arrives earlier; the return fights a headwind. Across the Atlantic the difference reaches an hour and a half — that is physics, not error.

No. The figure is for a nonstop flight. A connecting itinerary takes longer: the two legs plus the layover, usually from ninety minutes to several hours.

It is the length of a great-circle arc — the shortest path across the surface of a sphere. On a familiar map projection such a route looks curved even though it is the shortest one. Actual track miles are a few percent higher because of airways and restricted zones.

It is the common rule of thumb of roughly a day per hour of shift, not medical advice. Eastbound travel is harder than westbound because going to bed earlier is harder than staying up later, and that is built into the estimate.