Direct Flights from Washington to Richmond
Richmond · Virginia
Nonstop service from IAD and BWI to RIC on Southwest, 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 Richmond. Fares differ by airport — each row opens that exact search on Kayak.
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- Find flights ↗IADRICWashington Dulles International
- Find flights ↗BWIRICBaltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
How rare is this nonstop?
33 cities have a nonstop to Richmond, Washington among them.
How long to go to Richmond for, from Washington
40m in the air, 100 miles: short enough that a single night in Richmond is worth it, and a day trip is not absurd.
With roughly 6 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 Richmond
Richmond is the capital of Virginia. Richmond has a population of 227,000 (2020) and the adjacent counties of Henrico and Chesterfield combine to create a local population of more than 1.3 million people.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Richmond
- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Kings Dominion is an amusement park in Doswell, Virginia, United States, twenty miles (30 km) north of Richmond and 75 miles (120 km) south of Washington, D.C.
- The Virginia Holocaust Museum (VHM) is a public history museum located in Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to interpreting the history of the Holocaust through survivor testimony, artifacts, and educational p…
- The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond, Virginia, is a Catholic cathedral that is the seat of the Diocese of Richmond.
- The United States Army Ordnance Training Support Facility is a military museum with artifacts that are used to train and educate logistics soldiers. It re-located to Fort Lee, outside Petersburg, Virginia in 2009.
- Metro Richmond Zoo is a privately owned, for-profit zoo in Chesterfield County, Virginia. It is located in the central Virginia area, off of U.S. Route 360, about 20 miles southwest of Richmond.
- The James Monroe Tomb is the burial place of U.S. President James Monroe in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States.
- Cactus Hill is an archaeological site in southeastern Virginia, United States, located on sand dunes above the Nottoway River about 45 miles south of Richmond.
- The Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, was the first installation on Monument Avenue in 1890, and would ultimately be the last Confederate monument removed from the site.
- The American Civil War Museum is a multi-site museum in the Greater Richmond Region of central Virginia, dedicated to the history of the American Civil War.
- The Jefferson Davis Memorial was a memorial for Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865, installed along Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, in the United States.
- The Poe Museum or the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, is a museum located in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Richmond weather, compared with Washington
4° warmer than Washington on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Richmond 48°F · Washington 43°F · 5° warmer
- April
- Richmond 71°F · Washington 67°F · 4° warmer
- July
- Richmond 90°F · Washington 88°F · 2° warmer
- October
- Richmond 71°F · Washington 68°F · 3° warmer
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Richmond
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Richmond is April–May and September–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 61–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Richmond rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Kings Dominion, and Virginia Holocaust Museum and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Washington to Richmond?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Washington (IAD, BWI) to Richmond (RIC) on Southwest, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Washington to Richmond?
- Southwest, United fly nonstop between Washington (IAD, BWI) and Richmond (RIC).
- Which Washington airport has nonstop flights to Richmond?
- You can leave from 2 Washington airports: IAD (Washington Dulles International) on United; BWI (Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall) on Southwest.
- How many nonstop flights are there from Washington to Richmond?
- There are about 6 nonstop departures per day (roughly 42 per week) from Washington to Richmond.
- How far is Richmond from Washington?
- Richmond is about 100 miles from Washington by air.
- What is there to do in Richmond?
- Popular things to do include Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Kings Dominion, Virginia Holocaust Museum, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Richmond, Virginia), and more.
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