At the cruise speed this site models for 1,118 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 56m.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HOU Houston to QRO Queretaro
William P Hobby, the United States, to Queretaro Intercontinental, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,118 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 56m
- Door to door
- 8h 41m
What HOU to QRO looks like
The HOU to QRO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Houston HOU to Queretaro QRO is a short sector of 1,118 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
Houston HOU is a large airport in the network held here, 145 scheduled destinations and 205.5 departures a day. Queretaro QRO has 28 destinations and 33.6 departures a day.
Houston carries about 6.1 times the departures of Queretaro, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Queretaro runs no time shift at all of Houston in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 HOU to QRO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOU to QRO | 0.29 | 2 | none held |
| QRO to HOU | 0 | 0 | none held |
No operating carrier is recorded on the nonstop, which is why the connecting routings below are the plan for HOU to QRO rather than the fallback.
The return leg QRO to HOU carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 2 departures a week on HOU to QRO, 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 1h 56m block time on HOU to QRO. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to HOU | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At HOU before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| HOU to QRO in the air, estimated | 116 min | 6h 26m |
| Formalities at QRO | 90 min | 7h 56m |
| Delivery run in Queretaro | 45 min | 8h 41m |
| Door to door | 521 min | 8h 41m |
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 HOU to QRO is 8h 41m.
A courier who leaves Houston at 09:00 local is on the ground in Queretaro at about 10:56 local and at the door by 13:11 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Queretaro, the last useful departure from Houston is around 13:49 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. 10 of them join HOU to QRO.
| Connecting at | HOU to hub, flights a day | Hub to QRO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Vallarta PVR | 1.14 | 1.14 | 1,940 | 4h 35m |
| Dallas DFW | 6.14 | 3.86 | 1,799 | 4h 52m |
| Cancun CUN | 3.57 | 2.86 | 2,659 | 5h 24m |
| Atlanta ATL | 8 | 1.14 | 3,241 | 6h 39m |
10 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Puerto Vallarta PVR, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through PVR the routing covers 1,940 km against the 1,118 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 35m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 39m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Dallas DFW at 4h 52m and Cancun CUN at 5h 24m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Houston, Houston IAH is 38 km away by great circle and carries 197 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Queretaro, Leon and Silao BJX is 141 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 Houston to Queretaro 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 HOU to QRO 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 HOU airport entry
- The QRO airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Chicago to Queretaro
- The written lane, Frankfurt to Queretaro
- The written lane, Munich to Queretaro
- The route calculator
More pairs through HOU and QRO: Houston to Phoenix, San Diego to Houston, El Paso to Houston, Houston to Dallas, Houston to Indianapolis, Houston to Las Vegas, Birmingham to Houston, Tijuana to Houston.