This calculator requires the use of Javascript enabled and capable browsers. It is to determine the flight distance to North American airports from the Southern California Lower Desert Empire, Palm Springs and surrounding cities. Select an originating airport from the drop down list of the three desert area airports and then select a destination airport. Click the Calculate button and the calculated trip information will be displayed. The distances displayed do not take into consideration departure and approach patterns, restricted zones, standard routing or weather deviations. If the airport you are seeking is not in our table, please send us a quick note and we will add it, assuming we can find longitude and latitude information for it. For distance between specific longitude and latitude points, try our Distances Between Longitude And Latitude Points calculator. Here is the current NOAA aviation weather.