Direct Flights from Minneapolis to Williston
Williston · North Dakota
Nonstop service from MSP to XWA on Delta. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
This is a rare nonstop: only 3 cities fly direct to Williston, and Minneapolis is one of them. From anywhere else you'd be connecting.
How long to go to Williston for, from Minneapolis
1h 35m in the air, 551 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Williston. Two nights works.
About Williston
Williston is a city on the Missouri River, near the northwestern corner of North Dakota, that is now experiencing explosive growth due to an oil boom. It is about 230 miles northwest of Bismarck - the state capital - by car. Williston is the county seat. Its population grew from 15,000 in 2010 to about 27,000 in 2018.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Williston
- Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site is a partial reconstruction of the most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri River from 1829 to 1867.
- Lewis and Clark State Park is a public recreation area occupying 525 acres (212 ha) in Williams County, North Dakota, where Gamache Creek enters Lake Sakakawea, 18 miles (29 km) east of Williston.
- The Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center is a museum near Williston, North Dakota.
- Writing Rock State Historic Site, located twelve miles (19 km) northeast of Grenora, North Dakota in Divide County near the Montana border, is the site of two large granite boulders, carved with petroglyphs featuring thu…
- Brush Lake State Park is a public recreation area located four miles east of the community of Dagmar, Montana. The park surrounds three sides of the highly alkaline, 280-acre (110 ha), sixty-foot-deep Brush Lake.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Williston weather, compared with Minneapolis
Within 1° of Minneapolis 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
- Williston 22°F · Minneapolis 24°F · much the same
- April
- Williston 56°F · Minneapolis 57°F · much the same
- July
- Williston 84°F · Minneapolis 83°F · much the same
- October
- Williston 56°F · Minneapolis 58°F · 2° colder
January bottoms out near 22°F — a real coat, not a layer.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at the nearest weather station to each city.
Planning a trip to Williston
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Williston is May–June and September, when daytime highs are a comfortable 67–77°F.
- How long to stay
- Three or four days is enough to take in Williston's highlights, from Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Lewis and Clark State Park (North Dakota), and Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center and more.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Minneapolis to Williston?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Minneapolis (MSP) to Williston (XWA) on Delta.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Minneapolis to Williston?
- Delta flies nonstop between Minneapolis (MSP) and Williston (XWA).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Minneapolis to Williston?
- There are about 3 nonstop departures per day (roughly 21 per week) from Minneapolis to Williston.
- How far is Williston from Minneapolis?
- Williston is about 551 miles from Minneapolis by air.
- What is there to do in Williston?
- Popular things to do include Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Lewis and Clark State Park (North Dakota), Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center, Writing Rock State Historic Site, and more.
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