Direct Flights from Chicago to Hartford
Hartford · Connecticut
Nonstop service from ORD and MDW to BDL on American, Southwest, United. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
Which airports fly this route
Chicago has 2 airports with nonstop service to Hartford. Fares differ by airport — each row opens that exact search on Kayak.
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- Find flights ↗ORDBDLChicago O'Hare International
- Find flights ↗MDWBDLChicago Midway International
How rare is this nonstop?
40 cities have a nonstop to Hartford, Chicago among them.
How long to go to Hartford for, from Chicago
2h 5m in the air, 781 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Hartford. Two nights works.
With roughly 8 departures a day, you are not tied to one flight: if a meeting overruns or the weather turns, there is another one behind it.
About Hartford
Hartford is the capital of the state of Connecticut in the United States of America. It is home to the country's oldest public art museum, and the Mark Twain House, in which the author wrote his most famous works and raised his family. Mark Twain wrote in 1868, "Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief."
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Hartford
- The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the rare book library and literary archive of Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut.
- The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is an art museum in New Haven, Connecticut. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University.
- The Yale Peabody Museum at Yale University is one of the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world.
- The Springfield Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Springfield located in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, was the primary center for the manufacture of United States military f…
- The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum in Hartford, Connecticut. The Wadsworth is noted for its collections of European Baroque art, ancient Egyptian and Classical bronzes, French and American Impressionist paintings, H…
- The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut.
- The International Volleyball Hall of Fame (IVHF) was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball.
- The Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in central New Haven, Connecticut, United States, houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom.
- The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens and his family from 1874 to 1891.
- The New Britain Museum of American Art is an art museum in New Britain, Connecticut. Founded in 1903, it is the first museum in the country dedicated to American art.
- The Florence Griswold Museum is an art museum at 96 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, Connecticut whose centerpiece is the former home of Florence Griswold (1850–1937).
- The Yale School of Art is the visual art school of Yale University, a private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Hartford weather, compared with Chicago
Within 2° of Chicago on the annual average, so pack much as you would at home — but the two cities do not track each other month to month:
- January
- Hartford 35°F · Chicago 31°F · 4° warmer
- April
- Hartford 61°F · Chicago 59°F · 2° warmer
- July
- Hartford 85°F · Chicago 84°F · much the same
- October
- Hartford 64°F · Chicago 62°F · much the same
January bottoms out near 35°F — a real coat, not a layer.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Hartford
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Hartford is April–June and September–October, when daytime highs are a comfortable 61–80°F.
- How long to stay
- Hartford rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Art Gallery, and Peabody Museum of Natural History and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Chicago to Hartford?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Chicago (ORD, MDW) to Hartford (BDL) on American, Southwest, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Chicago to Hartford?
- American, Southwest, United fly nonstop between Chicago (ORD, MDW) and Hartford (BDL).
- Which Chicago airport has nonstop flights to Hartford?
- You can leave from 2 Chicago airports: ORD (Chicago O'Hare International) on American, United; MDW (Chicago Midway International) on Southwest.
- How many nonstop flights are there from Chicago to Hartford?
- There are about 8 nonstop departures per day (roughly 56 per week) from Chicago to Hartford.
- How far is Hartford from Chicago?
- Hartford is about 781 miles from Chicago by air.
- What is there to do in Hartford?
- Popular things to do include Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Springfield Armory, and more.
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