Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
IAD
Airport information
Washington Dulles International Airport
Dulles, United StatesIATA: IADICAO: KIAD
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Departures
Live departure times, status, terminal and gate are on the departures page.
Live radar
Live radar around the airport
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The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
4 runways · Longest runway: 11,499 ft
- 01C/19C11,500 ft · heading 1/181 degrees
- 01R/19Lin use nowarriving traffic11,500 ft · heading 1/181 degrees
- 12/3010,501 ft · heading 111/291 degrees
- 01L/19R9,400 ft · heading 1/181 degrees
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
Practical
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Transport by metro, bus, and taxi; parking at the airport; picking someone up or dropping them off.
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Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
ATLUnited States
Atlanta
- Distance
- 534 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 21m
- Airlines
Agroar - Trabalhos Aéreos · Breeze Airways · +10
Agroar - Trabalhos Aéreos · Breeze Airways · Delta Air Lines · Endeavor Air · Flightworks · Frontier Airlines · GlobalX · Mesa Airlines · Republic Airways · Southwest Airlines · Sun Country Airlines · United Airlines
DENUnited States
Denver
- Distance
- 1,449 mi
- Estimated duration
- 3h 25m
- Airlines
Air Canada · Delta Air Lines · +3
Air Canada · Delta Air Lines · SkyWest Airlines · Southwest Airlines · United Airlines
CLTUnited States
Charlotte
- Distance
- 321 mi
- Estimated duration
- 56m
- Airlines
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · +5
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · GoJet Airlines LLC · Mesa Airlines · PSA Airlines · Republic Airways · United Airlines
EWRUnited States
Newark
- Distance
- 212 mi
- Estimated duration
- 45m
- Airlines
Alaska Airlines · American Airlines · +7
Alaska Airlines · American Airlines · CEIBA Intercontinental · Delta Air Lines · FedEx · GoJet Airlines LLC · Republic Airways · United Airlines · UPS Airlines
Airports nearby
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
- WashingtonRonald Reagan Washington National AirportDCA23 mi111 destinations
- BaltimoreBaltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall AirportBWI45 mi104 destinations
- CharlottesvilleCharlottesville Albemarle AirportCHO77 mi15 destinations
- HarrisburgHarrisburg International AirportMDT94 mi36 destinations
- RichmondRichmond International AirportRIC100 mi64 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- Washington Dulles International Airport
- City and country
- Dulles, United States
- IATA / ICAO
- IAD / KIAD
- Time zone
- America/New_York
- Terminal
- A, B, C, D
- Category
- International hub
Terminals: © OpenStreetMap contributors
Dulles Airport (IAD) Flight Status: Washington Dulles International
Dulles Airport, officially Washington Dulles International Airport, is a large and busy international airport in Dulles, United States. Its airport codes are IAD (IATA) and KIAD (ICAO), and it sits at 38.9445 north, 77.4558 west. The live radar on this page shows the aircraft arriving at and departing from IAD right now, and the arrivals and departures pages linked above the radar carry the times and status of each flight. The sections below add something the radar cannot show: what our own reception measurement recorded at Dulles Airport over a full month.
IAD is the three-letter IATA code you will see on tickets and booking confirmations for Dulles; KIAD is the four-letter ICAO code used in aviation datasets, including ours. Both refer to the same airport, and our database lists it in the large airport size class.
What our own 30-day measurement shows at IAD
The figures in this section come from our own 30-day reception measurement. Over those 30 days, we recorded an average of 59.1 aircraft observations per day near Washington Dulles, a level of activity that matches its classification as a busy airport in our data.
The busiest window in our measurement fell between 01:00 and 03:00. One important note for travelers reading that number: our measurement clock runs in UTC, not local time, so that peak window needs to be converted to the local clock before you plan around it. Both the daily average and the busiest window come from the same 30-day period, so they describe one and the same stretch of traffic at IAD. A concentration like that is exactly why a live radar is useful at an airport this size: activity at IAD is not spread evenly across the day in our measurement.
United Airlines at Washington Dulles
United Airlines appears in our data as well: we recorded 642 observations of United aircraft near IAD during the 30-day measurement, and it is the only carrier in our data for Dulles. If you are meeting a passenger or catching a connection on this carrier, the United Airlines flight status page is the next place to look after the Dulles arrivals and departures pages.
Alternative airports near Dulles
Dulles is not the only airport in its area, and when schedules get tight it helps to know the alternatives we track nearby. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is the closest option at 38 km from IAD. Joint Base Andrews follows at 53 km. Farther out, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport lies 73 km away. The distances come from our database and are measured from Dulles. We track all three, and each has its own page on this site, so you can look up the one that suits your plans before deciding where to fly from or where to pick someone up.
For a wider view beyond this region, see our airport overview.