How do you combine Dallas and Fort Worth?
Yes. Dallas and Fort Worth combine well on one trip. As a rough guide, allow 2 days in Dallas and 2 days in Fort Worth, around 4 days in total.
How the two connect
Dallas and Fort Worth are only about 49 km apart, close enough to combine on the same trip without long transfers, and easy to do as a day trip in either direction. The nearest airport to Dallas is Dallas Love Field (DAL), about 8 km away; for Fort Worth it is Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (FTW), about 11 km away, so you can fly into one and out of the other.
Suggested days
- Dallas
- 2 days
- Fort Worth
- 2 days
- Together
- 4 days · about 49 km apart
These are starting points, not fixed rules. Add a day to whichever place matches your interests, and build in the travel time between them.
Explore both places
Tours and day trips from Dallas
- Museum of Illusions Dallas Admission
- Dallas' Reunion Tower GeO-Deck Observation Ticket
- JFK Assassination and Museum Tour with Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House
- Dallas Sightseeing Tour
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Day suggestions are a planning guide based on each place's size and profile, not fixed itineraries. Distances are great-circle figures derived from place coordinates; airport data from OurAirports. How Head Your Way compiles its data.