Best Airports to Leave on a Layover

1. 1ATL Airport (ATL)To downtown Atlanta3 h+
2. 1Austin Airport (AUS)To downtown Austin3 h+
3. 1BWI Airport (BWI)To downtown Baltimore3 h+
4. 1BOS Airport (BOS)To South Station, downtown Boston3 h+
5. 1CLT Airport (CLT)To Uptown Charlotte3 h+
6. 1MDW Airport (MDW)To the Loop, downtown Chicago3 h+
7. 1DAL Airport (DAL)To downtown Dallas3 h+
8. 1Fort Lauderdale Airport (FLL)To downtown Fort Lauderdale3 h+
9. 1HOU Airport (HOU)To downtown Houston3 h+
10. 1LAS Airport (LAS)To the Las Vegas Strip3 h+
11. 1MIA Airport (MIA)To downtown Miami3 h+
12. 1MSP Airport (MSP)To downtown Minneapolis3 h+
13. 1Nashville Airport (BNA)To downtown Nashville3 h+
14. 1Oakland Airport (OAK)To downtown Oakland3 h+
15. 1MCO Airport (MCO)To downtown Orlando3 h+
16. 1PHL Airport (PHL)To Center City Philadelphia3 h+
17. 1PHX Airport (PHX)To downtown Phoenix3 h+
18. 1Portland Airport (PDX) (PDX)To downtown Portland3 h+
19. 1SLC Airport (SLC)To downtown Salt Lake City3 h+
20. 1San Diego Airport (SAN)To downtown San Diego3 h+
21. 1SFO Airport (SFO)To downtown San Francisco3 h+
22. 1San Juan Airport (SJU)To Old San Juan3 h+
23. 1St. Louis Airport (STL)To downtown St. Louis3 h+
24. 1Tampa Airport (TPA)To downtown Tampa3 h+
25. 1DCA Airport (DCA)To downtown Washington, D.C.3 h+
26. 26ORD Airport (ORD)To the Loop, downtown Chicago3 h 30 min+
27. 26DFW Airport (DFW)To downtown Dallas3 h 30 min+
28. 26DEN Airport (DEN)To Union Station, downtown Denver3 h 30 min+
29. 26DTW Airport (DTW)To downtown Detroit3 h 30 min+
30. 26Honolulu Airport (HNL)To Waikiki3 h 30 min+
31. 26IAH Airport (IAH)To downtown Houston3 h 30 min+
32. 26Kansas City Airport (MCI)To downtown Kansas City3 h 30 min+
33. 26LAX Airport (LAX)To Union Station, downtown Los Angeles3 h 30 min+
34. 26New Orleans Airport (MSY)To the French Quarter and downtown3 h 30 min+
35. 26LGA Airport (LGA)To Midtown Manhattan3 h 30 min+
36. 26EWR Airport (EWR)To Penn Station, Manhattan3 h 30 min+
37. 26SEA Airport (SEA)To downtown Seattle3 h 30 min+
38. 26IAD Airport (IAD)To downtown Washington, D.C.3 h 30 min+
39. 39Schiphol Airport (AMS)To Amsterdam Centraal4 h+
40. 39Doha Hamad Airport (DOH)To central Doha4 h+
41. 39Dubai Airport (DXB)To downtown Dubai4 h+
42. 39Frankfurt Airport (FRA)To Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof4 h+
43. 39Heathrow Airport (LHR)To central London4 h+
44. 39Madrid Airport (MAD)To central Madrid4 h+
45. 39JFK Airport (JFK)To Midtown Manhattan4 h+
46. 39Changi Airport (SIN)To the city center (City Hall)4 h+
47. 39Vancouver Airport (YVR)To downtown Vancouver4 h+
48. 48Dublin Airport (DUB)To Dublin city center4 h 30 min+
49. 48Hong Kong Airport (HKG)To Central, Hong Kong Island4 h 30 min+
50. 48Mexico City Airport (MEX)To the historic center (Zócalo)4 h 30 min+
51. 48Montreal Airport (YUL)To downtown Montreal4 h 30 min+
52. 48Munich Airport (MUC)To Munich Hauptbahnhof4 h 30 min+
53. 48Paris CDG Airport (CDG)To central Paris4 h 30 min+
54. 48Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ)To Union Station, downtown Toronto4 h 30 min+
55. 55Istanbul Airport (IST)To central Istanbul5 h+
56. 55Keflavík Airport (KEF)To Reykjavík5 h+

How we rank: Adds the time to get out of the airport (20 minutes in the U.S., 45 with passport control abroad), the fastest round trip into town, an hour there and the time to get back through security, rounded up to the half hour. Read our full methodology.