How long does it take to get to Denver from St Louis?

There are 794.94 miles from Saint Louis to Denver in west direction and 849 miles (1,366.33 kilometers) by car, following the I-70 and US-40 W and KS 4 W route.

This is the fastest route from Saint Louis, MO to Denver, CO. The halfway point is Salina, KS.

Please note the time difference between Saint Louis, MO and Denver, CO is 1 hour. The current time in Saint Louis is 7:39 pm and the current time in Denver is 6:39 pm.

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The flight time from St. Louis to Denver is 2 hours, 17 minutes. The time spent in the air is 1 hour, 55 minutes.

The flight distance from St. Louis to Denver is 770 Miles.

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How far is St. Louis from Denver by plane?

The distance from St. Louis to Denver by plane is 770 Miles. This is the air distance on the most direct route taken by the vast majority of flights.

How long is the flight from St. Louis to Denver?

The flight time from St. Louis to Denver is 2 hours, 17 minutes. The time spent in the air is 1 hour, 55 minutes. These numbers are averages. In reality, it varies by airline with Southwest being the fastest taking 2 hours, 13 minutes, and United the slowest taking 2 hours, 23 minutes.

What airlines fly from St. Louis to Denver?

Frontier, United, and Southwest are the airlines with direct flights from St. Louis to Denver.

Does Southwest fly from St. Louis to Denver?

Yes! Southwest does fly from St. Louis (STL) to Denver (DEN). On average, they have 30 flights per week on this route. This may vary seasonally, please check the chart above for more details.

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The average timeline contains the median time a flight spends in 3 stages. The first of these three stages is taxiing out which includes the time from the flight leaving the gate to taking off. The second stage is in the air, which includes the time spent from the flight leaving the ground to touching back down at the end of it's journey. The last stage is taxiing in, which is from when the flight touches down to the flight arriving at it's gate.

The average timeline also estimates on average of when the flight will leave and arrive relative to it's stated departure time.

The reliability of an airline measures how often the airline's flights on this route are cancelled or delayed more than 20 minutes. For example, from St. Louis to Denver, Southwest is 79% reliable, which means that Southwest flights are on time 79% of the time, and cancelled or delayed the remaining time.

Each airline takes a different amount of time to fly between St. Louis and Denver, this is due to different operational factors on the ground, as well as scheduling of planes. Each airline's flight time is split into three stages which are described above in the "Average Timeline" section. There are also miscellaneous operational issues which are included in the below total but are not accounted for in one of the three stages.

This one is pretty self explanatory, it represents the number of flights that leave the gate in a given hour of the day. The tricky thing here is that this is normally not a whole number since it is an average over 52 weeks. Partial numbers may indicate that a flight may be seasonal or may take off at different times due to different operational factors.

The quantity of flights from St. Louis to Denver that take off in a given month of the year. This number changes because some flights are seasonal, and almost all flights have uneven demand througout the year.

The quantity of flights from St. Louis to Denver that take off on a given day of the week. Some routes only have enough demand to sustain a few trips a week, while others have many flights a day. This number is also an average across the year, and hence may not be a whole number.

How many times an airline flies this route in a week. Different factors play into how often a carrier chooses to fly a given route including it's need to connect disparate routes, and demand.

The total flight time varies by each hour of the day due to factors such as airport traffic. More flights leaving an airport may cause higher taxi in or taxi out times. See the description of the average timeline above for a deeper discussion of each of these times.

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