Direct Flights from Washington to Huntsville
Huntsville · Alabama
Nonstop service from DCA and IAD to HSV on American, United. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
Which airports fly this route
Washington has 2 airports with nonstop service to Huntsville. Fares differ by airport — each row opens that exact search on Kayak.
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- Find flights ↗DCAHSVRonald Reagan Washington National
- Find flights ↗IADHSVWashington Dulles International
How rare is this nonstop?
17 cities have a nonstop to Huntsville, Washington among them.
How long to go to Huntsville for, from Washington
1h 45m in the air, 612 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Huntsville. Two nights works.
With roughly 7 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 Washington
6° warmer than Washington on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Huntsville 51°F · Washington 43°F · 8° warmer
- April
- Huntsville 74°F · Washington 67°F · 7° warmer
- July
- Huntsville 90°F · Washington 88°F · 3° warmer
- October
- Huntsville 75°F · Washington 68°F · 7° warmer
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 Washington to Huntsville?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Washington (DCA, IAD) to Huntsville (HSV) on American, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Washington to Huntsville?
- American, United fly nonstop between Washington (DCA, IAD) and Huntsville (HSV).
- Which Washington airport has nonstop flights to Huntsville?
- You can leave from 2 Washington airports: DCA (Ronald Reagan Washington National) on American; IAD (Washington Dulles International) on United.
- How many nonstop flights are there from Washington to Huntsville?
- There are about 7 nonstop departures per day (roughly 49 per week) from Washington to Huntsville.
- How far is Huntsville from Washington?
- Huntsville is about 612 miles from Washington 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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