City comparison
Colorado Springs, CO is about 600 miles (1,000 km) from Dallas, TX in a straight line. By road, the drive is roughly 750 miles, or about 13 hours behind the wheel at highway speeds.
Driving distance is a rough estimate (great-circle × 1.25); driving time assumes a 60 mph blended average. Real trips run 10–20% longer with stops.
A direct flight from Colorado Springs, CO to Dallas, TX takes about 1 h 14 min, covering roughly 600 miles in a straight line. Connecting itineraries with a layover typically add 1–3 hours.
Block-to-block estimate at ~500 mph cruise, including taxi, climb, and descent — what an airline would publish, not pure airborne time.
Colorado Springs, CO is on Mountain Time and Dallas, TX is on Central Time — a 1-hour difference. When it's noon in Colorado Springs, it's 1 p.m. in Dallas, which puts Colorado Springs 1 hours behind.
Standard-time offsets. Daylight saving applies in both cities for most of the year (exceptions: Hawaii and most of Arizona), and the gap between the two stays the same.
Dallas has a population of 1,300,642, vs 479,612 in Colorado Springs — about 2.7× larger by population. By land area, Dallas covers about 340 sq mi vs 200 sq mi for Colorado Springs.
Population from US Census ACS. Land area from the Census Gazetteer (city proper, excluding inland water).
Cost indices by category, with the US city average (100) marked.
Index: 100 = US city average. Lower is more affordable.
Side-by-side costs, salaries, and sub-category indices.
| Metric | Colorado Springs | Dallas | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,464/mo | $1,305/mo | 12.2% higher in Colorado Springs |
| Median home value | $383,000 | $270,700 | 41.5% higher in Colorado Springs |
| Median household income | $79,026 | $63,985 | 23.5% higher in Colorado Springs |
| Groceries index | 96.8 | 101.7 | 5.1% higher in Dallas |
| Utilities index | 87.0 | 89.3 | 2.6% higher in Dallas |
| Transportation index | 100.3 | 98.5 | 1.7% higher in Colorado Springs |
| Healthcare index | 100.2 | 99.7 | 0.5% higher in Colorado Springs |
How much you'd need to earn in the other city to keep the same standard of living.
If you earn $100,000 in Colorado Springs, you'd need $100,722 in Dallas to maintain your standard of living.
Climate, safety, and demographics side by side.
Colorado Springs, CO is about 0.7% cheaper overall than Dallas, TX, based on our cost-of-living index. If you earn $80,000 in Colorado Springs, you'd need about $80,578 in Dallas to keep the same standard of living.