How far is Birmingham AL from Mobile?

Q: Is Mobile bigger than Birmingham?

Alabamas largest metro populations (July 2021 estimates): Birmingham-Hoover Metro — 1,114,262. Huntsville Metro — 502,728. Mobile Metro — 428,220.

The driving distance from Birmingham, Alabama to Mobile, Alabama is:

259 miles / 417 km

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Map of driving directions from Birmingham, AL to Mobile, AL

View a map with driving directions using your preferred map provider: Google Maps, Bing Maps, or MapQuest. You can use DriveDistance.com to get the full driving distance from Birmingham to Mobile with directions.

More trip calculations

The total driving distance from Birmingham, AL to Mobile, AL is 259 miles or 417 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Birmingham, Alabama. It ends in Mobile, Alabama.

If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Birmingham, AL to Mobile, AL so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Birmingham, AL to Mobile, AL based on current local fuel prices and an estimate of your car's best gas mileage.

If you're meeting a friend, you might be interested in finding the city that is halfway between Birmingham, AL and Mobile, AL.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Birmingham, AL to Mobile, AL.

Driving distance calculator

Travelmath helps you find driving distances based on actual directions for your road trip. You can get the distance between cities, airports, states, countries, or zip codes to figure out the best route to travel to your destination. Combine this information with the fuel cost tool to find out how much it will cost you to drive the distance, or compare the results to the straight line distance to determine whether it's better to drive or fly. You can print out pages with a travel map.

The driving distance from Mobile, Alabama to Birmingham, Alabama is:

259 miles / 417 km

Plan your road trip at

Map of driving directions from Mobile, AL to Birmingham, AL

View a map with driving directions using your preferred map provider: Google Maps, Bing Maps, or MapQuest. You can use DriveDistance.com to get the full driving distance from Mobile to Birmingham with directions.

More trip calculations

The total driving distance from Mobile, AL to Birmingham, AL is 259 miles or 417 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Mobile, Alabama. It ends in Birmingham, Alabama.

If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Mobile, AL to Birmingham, AL so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Mobile, AL to Birmingham, AL based on current local fuel prices and an estimate of your car's best gas mileage.

If you're meeting a friend, you might be interested in finding the city that is halfway between Mobile, AL and Birmingham, AL.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Mobile, AL to Birmingham, AL.

Driving distance calculator

Driving non-stop from Mobile to Birmingham (Alabama)

How far is Birmingham (Alabama) from Mobile? Here's the quick answer if you are able to make this entire trip by car without stopping.

Nonstop drive: 259 miles or 417 km

Driving time: 3 hours, 40 minutes

Realistically, you'll probably want to add a buffer for rest stops, gas, or food along the way. To get a better idea of how long this trip would really be, scroll down to calculate how many hours it would take if you drive with stops.

Flying non-stop from Mobile to Birmingham (Alabama)

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Mobile, Alabama and Birmingham, Alabama. Because of the curvature of the Earth, the shortest distance is actually the "great circle" distance, or "as the crow flies" which is calculated using an iterative Vincenty formula.

Flight distance: 208 miles or 335 km

Flight time: 55 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 51 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 1.2x of the flight distance.

Your plane flies much faster than a car, so the flight time is about 1/4th of the time it would take to drive.

This is a relatively short flight in a private plane, but you might be planning to book a commercial flight. In that case, your travel time would really need to include how many minutes to get to your local airport, wait for security, board and taxi on the runway, land at the other airport, and get to your destination. Scroll down to see a more realistic calculation that takes into account all these factors to get a more accurate estimate of your actual flight time.

Mobile to Birmingham (Alabama) road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Birmingham (Alabama), and you want to stop on the way to explore. If it's a real road trip, you might want to check out interesting places along the way, or maybe eat at a great restaurant. That's what Trippy is perfect for, helping you figure out travel plans in detail.

Road trip: 1 day of driving

With the full itinerary planned out, we can estimate your total travel time for this trip.

Travel time: 4.5 hours on the road

Itinerary

Start in Mobile.

Drive for about 51 minutes, then stop in Atmore and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 46 minutes then stop in Evergreen and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 37 minutes then stop in Greenville (Alabama) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 43 minutes then stop in Montgomery and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 41 minutes then stop in Clanton and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 55 minutes and arrive in Birmingham (Alabama).

To see all the details on this itinerary, including recommended restaurants, hotels, and things to do along the way, check out the full road trip planner:

Mobile to Birmingham (Alabama) airports and flights

In the quick calculation above, we assumed you had a private plane and just wanted to know the time in the air from city to city. But for most of us, we're going to be flying on a commercial airline (whether it's first class or coach). So that means we really need to account for all the extra travel time getting to the airport, waiting for our flight, and making it to the destination.

To give you a better estimate of real-life travel, we've put together a flight itinerary with actual airports. Eventually you'll be able to customize this plan, choosing your own airports and flights. But for now, here's an example we've selected to give you an idea of how traveling might work between airports.

Departure airport: Mobile Regional Airport (MOB)

Arrival airport: Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM)

With the airports selected, we can estimate the travel time to and from the airport, based on how far the airport is from downtown.

Getting to the airport: 36 minutes

Getting to your destination: 12 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from MOB to BHM and figure out how long it would take to fly including take-off and landing, and time to taxi on the runway.

Commercial flight time: 55 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Mobile to Birmingham (Alabama) including time spent getting to/from the airports, an estimated wait time of 2 hours at the airport for TSA security lines and waiting at the gate, and the actual flight itself.

Total travel time: 4 hours

To see the details on this flight plan, including recommended airports, airline, and route, check out the flight planner:

How far is it the other way?

The distance is the same either way if you're flying a straight line (or driving the same roads back and forth). But for a real trip, there can be plenty of differences so go ahead and check the reverse directions to get the distance from Birmingham (Alabama) to Mobile, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

If you happen to know Mobile, don't forget to help other travelers and answer some questions about Mobile!

How far is drive from Birmingham to Mobile?

How long is the drive from Mobile to Birmingham? The direct drive from Mobile to Birmingham is 257 mi (414 km), and should have a drive time of 3 hrs 48 mins in normal traffic.