Direct Flights from Chicago to Huntsville
Huntsville · Alabama
Nonstop service from ORD to HSV on American, United. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
17 cities have a nonstop to Huntsville, Chicago among them.
How long to go to Huntsville for, from Chicago
1h 30m in the air, 511 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Huntsville. Two nights works.
With roughly 4 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 Huntsville
Huntsville is in northern Alabama, about 20 miles from the border with Tennessee. The city is a center for missile defense and aerospace technologies, with companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman having major operations here. Cummings Research Park, the second largest research park in the country, is home to many of these companies.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Huntsville
- The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama is a museum operated by the government of Alabama, showcasing rockets, achievements, and artifacts of the U.S. space program.
- Cathedral Caverns State Park is a 493-acre (200 ha) public recreation area and natural history preserve in Kennamer Cove, Alabama, located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Grant and 7 miles (11 km) southeast o…
- Huntsville Museum of Art (HMA) is a museum located in Huntsville, Alabama. HMA sits in Big Spring Park within Downtown Huntsville, and serves as a magnet for cultural activities.
- The Huntsville Botanical Garden is a 118 acres (480,000 m2) botanical garden located at 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, Alabama, near the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. It is open year-round for a fee.
- Painted Bluff is a cliff overlooking the Tennessee River in Marshall County, Alabama that features over 130 individual prehistoric Native American pictographs and petroglyphs.
- Buck's Pocket State Park is a public recreation area located on Sand Mountain in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Alabama, two miles (3.2 km) north of the community of Grove Oak.
- Lake Guntersville State Park is a public recreation area located on the far north side of the city of Guntersville in Marshall County, Alabama.
- Monte Sano State Park is a public recreation area and mountaintop retreat encompassing 2,140 acres (870 ha) on the eastern portion of the top and slopes of Monte Sano Mountain on the east side of Huntsville, Alabama.
- Big Spring International Park is a large park located in downtown Huntsville, Alabama. The park was built around its namesake "Big Spring", the original water source that the city of Huntsville was built around.
- The North Alabama Railroad Museum, Inc. is a railroad museum in Huntsville, Alabama. The museum, incorporated in 1966, is an all volunteer organization.
- Space City USA was a planned theme park near Huntsville, Alabama. Located adjacent to Lady Ann Lake between Huntsville and Decatur, the $5 million project was planned starting in 1959 as "Time World".
- Burritt on the Mountain is an open-air museum in Huntsville, Alabama. The museum grounds on Round Top Mountain, a plateau connected to Monte Sano Mountain, were the estate of local physician William Burritt, who willed h…
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Huntsville weather, compared with Chicago
13° warmer than Chicago on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Huntsville 51°F · Chicago 31°F · 20° warmer
- April
- Huntsville 74°F · Chicago 59°F · 15° warmer
- July
- Huntsville 90°F · Chicago 84°F · 6° warmer
- October
- Huntsville 75°F · Chicago 62°F · 12° warmer
Huntsville is the steadier of the two, moving 39° between its coldest and warmest months where Chicago moves 53°.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Huntsville
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Huntsville is March–May and October–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 63–81°F.
- How long to stay
- Huntsville rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Cathedral Caverns State Park, and Huntsville Museum of Art and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Chicago to Huntsville?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Chicago (ORD) to Huntsville (HSV) on American, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Chicago to Huntsville?
- American, United fly nonstop between Chicago (ORD) and Huntsville (HSV).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Chicago to Huntsville?
- There are about 4 nonstop departures per day (roughly 28 per week) from Chicago to Huntsville.
- How far is Huntsville from Chicago?
- Huntsville is about 511 miles from Chicago by air.
- What is there to do in Huntsville?
- Popular things to do include U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Cathedral Caverns State Park, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville Botanical Garden, and more.
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