The sector is held by VivaAerobus and Volaris.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CUN Cancun to GDL Guadalajara
Cancun International, Mexico, to Miguel Hidalgo Guadalajara, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,709 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 41m
- Door to door
- 9h 26m
What CUN to GDL looks like
The CUN to GDL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cancun CUN to Guadalajara GDL is a medium haul sector of 1,709 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,709 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 41m.
Cancun CUN is a large airport in the network held here, 85 scheduled destinations and 183.5 departures a day. Guadalajara GDL has 67 destinations and 162.3 departures a day.
Guadalajara is one hour behind of Cancun all year.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on CUN to GDL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUN to GDL | 6.86 | 48 | VivaAerobus, Volaris |
| GDL to CUN | 7 | 49 | VivaAerobus, Volaris |
Two carriers hold the sector, VivaAerobus and Volaris, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 6.9 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 97 departures a week on CUN to GDL, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 41m block time on CUN to GDL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CUN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CUN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CUN to GDL in the air, estimated | 161 min | 7h 11m |
| Formalities at GDL | 90 min | 8h 41m |
| Delivery run in Guadalajara | 45 min | 9h 26m |
| Door to door | 566 min | 9h 26m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for CUN to GDL is 9h 26m.
A courier who leaves Cancun at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guadalajara at about 10:41 local and at the door by 12:56 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guadalajara, the last useful departure from Cancun is around 14:04 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 29 of them join CUN to GDL.
| Connecting at | CUN to hub, flights a day | Hub to GDL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queretaro QRO | 2.86 | 0.71 | 1,709 | 4h 15m |
| Puebla PBC | 3 | 2.71 | 1,756 | 4h 21m |
| Villahermosa VSA | 1.14 | 1.29 | 1,845 | 4h 30m |
| Mexico City MEX | 23.86 | 23 | 1,743 | 4h 34m |
| Monterrey MTY | 14.71 | 11.43 | 2,118 | 4h 50m |
| Houston IAH | 5.57 | 5.29 | 2,629 | 5h 36m |
With 6.9 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
29 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Queretaro QRO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through QRO the routing covers 1,709 km against the 1,709 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 15m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Puebla PBC at 4h 21m and Villahermosa VSA at 4h 30m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Guadalajara, Leon and Silao BJX is 197 km away by great circle and carries 21 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Cancun to Guadalajara yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for CUN to GDL in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The CUN airport entry
- The GDL airport entry
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Madrid to Guadalajara
- The written lane, Shanghai to Guadalajara
- The route calculator
More pairs through CUN and GDL: Monterrey to Cancun, Mexico City to Cancun, Cancun to Houston, Bogota to Cancun, Mexico City to Cancun, Charlotte to Cancun, Tijuana to Cancun, Leon and Silao to Cancun.