Direct Flights from Raleigh/Durham to Islip
Islip · New York
Nonstop service from RDU to ISP on Breeze. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
16 cities have a nonstop to Islip, Raleigh/Durham among them.
How long to go to Islip for, from Raleigh/Durham
1h 25m in the air, 458 miles: short enough that a single night in Islip is worth it, and a day trip is not absurd.
The schedule narrows it further. This route does not fly daily, so assuming the return runs the same days, your trip is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 nights — or a full week. Worth checking before you book time off.
About Islip
Islip is a town on Long Island in the state of New York. Located within Suffolk County, the Town of Islip includes the villages of Brightwaters, Islandia, Ocean Beach and Saltaire. It also includes numerous hamlets including Bay Shore and Sayville which are ferry terminals for Fire Island. Other prominent communities are Bayport, Brentwood, Central Islip, Hauppauge, Islip village, and Ronkonkoma.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Islip
- 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 Glass House is a historic house museum on Ponus Ridge Road in New Canaan, Connecticut. It was built in 1948–49 by the architect Philip Johnson, who designed the home as his weekend retreat.
- The Yale Peabody Museum at Yale University is one of the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world.
- Pelham Bay Park is a municipal park located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is, at 2,772 acres (1,122 ha), the largest public park in New York City.
- The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut.
- 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 Ohel is an ohel in Cambria Heights, Queens, New York City, where Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and his father-in-law Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the two most recent rebbes of the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty, ar…
- The Yale School of Art is the visual art school of Yale University, a private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut.
- St. Agnes Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Rockville Centre, New York, in the United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
- The second USS California (ACR-6), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 6", and later renamed San Diego, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser.
- The Heckscher Museum of Art is an American art museum.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Islip weather, compared with Raleigh/Durham
10° cooler than Raleigh/Durham on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Islip 39°F · Raleigh/Durham 52°F · 12° colder
- April
- Islip 59°F · Raleigh/Durham 73°F · 14° colder
- July
- Islip 83°F · Raleigh/Durham 91°F · 7° colder
- October
- Islip 64°F · Raleigh/Durham 73°F · 8° colder
January bottoms out near 39°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 Islip
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Islip is May–June and August–October, when daytime highs are a comfortable 64–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Islip 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 Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Raleigh/Durham to Islip?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Raleigh/Durham (RDU) to Islip (ISP) on Breeze.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Raleigh/Durham to Islip?
- Breeze flies nonstop between Raleigh/Durham (RDU) and Islip (ISP).
- How far is Islip from Raleigh/Durham?
- Islip is about 458 miles from Raleigh/Durham by air.
- How many days can I spend in Islip flying from Raleigh/Durham?
- Because this route doesn't operate daily, your trip is effectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 nights — or a full week — assuming the return flies the same days as the outbound.
- What is there to do in Islip?
- Popular things to do include Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut), Peabody Museum of Natural History, and more.
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