Airports in North Dakota
All airports closest to North Dakota's geographic center, ranked by the number of scheduled departures on file. Click any IATA code to see the airport's destinations, operators, and route table.
| IATA | Airport | City | Departures |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAR | Hector International Airport | Fargo | 14 |
| BIS | Bismarck Municipal Airport | Bismarck | 6 |
| GFK | Grand Forks International Airport | Grand Forks | 5 |
| MOT | Minot International Airport | Minot | 5 |
| ISN | Sloulin Field International Airport | Williston | 2 |
| DIK | Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport | Dickinson | 2 |
| TVF | Thief River Falls Regional Airport | Thief River Falls | 1 |
| SDY | Sidney - Richland Regional Airport | Sidney | 1 |
| GDV | Dawson Community Airport | Glendive | 1 |
| RDR | Grand Forks Air Force Base | Red River | 0 |
| MIB | Minot Air Force Base | Minot | 0 |
| PMB | Pembina Municipal Airport | Pembina | 0 |
| JMS | Jamestown Regional Airport | Jamestown | 0 |
| DVL | Devils Lake Regional Airport | Devils Lake | 0 |
About this list
North Dakota's airport list is built by taking every US airport in the source dataset, computing the great-circle distance from each airport to all 52 state centroids, and grouping the airport under the closest one. Every state ends up with a populated page that way, including the small states that share their nearest international gateway with a neighbour. The flip side is that a handful of airports very close to a state border get filed under the neighbouring side.
The departures column reflects the number of distinct scheduled routes recorded against each airport in the OpenFlights routes table. A high count usually indicates a hub or focus city for one or more carriers; a low count typically points to seasonal or single-carrier service. For an authoritative real-time view, always confirm schedules with the operating airline.
Connecting onward
Most travelers in North Dakota reach long-haul destinations by connecting through a larger national or international hub. On any airport page below, the destinations table links straight through to the destination airport, where you can repeat the drill-down to see how onward connections fan out from there. Browsing this way gives you a feel for how a state plugs into the wider US and global network. Even small airports usually sit one or two hops away from any major world city.