How far is Round Rock from Texas from Houston?

The driving distance from Houston, Texas to Round Rock, Texas is:

167 miles / 269 km

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Map of driving directions from Houston, TX to Round Rock, TX

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The total driving distance from Houston, TX to Round Rock, TX is 167 miles or 269 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Houston, Texas. It ends in Round Rock, Texas.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Houston, TX to Round Rock, TX 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 Houston, TX and Round Rock, TX.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Houston, TX to Round Rock, TX.

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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.

Driving non-stop from Houston to Round Rock

How far is Round Rock from Houston? Here's the quick answer if you drive this relatively short distance without making any stops.

Nonstop drive: 167 miles or 269 km

Driving time: 2 hours, 41 minutes

Even though you can drive this distance straight through, it might be more interesting to stop along the way. You can scroll down to calculate how many hours it would take if you drive with stops.

Flying non-stop from Houston to Round Rock

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Houston, Texas and Round Rock, Texas. 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: 148 miles or 238 km

Flight time: 30 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 19 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 1.1x 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.

Houston to Round Rock road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Round Rock, 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: 3.5 hours on the road

Itinerary

Start in Houston.

Drive for about 1 hour, then stop in Monaville (Texas) and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 45 minutes then stop in Brenham and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 35 minutes then stop in Giddings and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 60 minutes then stop in Austin and stay for 4 hours.

Finally, drive for about 24 minutes and arrive in Round Rock.

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:

Houston to Round Rock 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: George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)

Arrival airport: Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)

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: 46 minutes

Getting to your destination: 65 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from IAH to AUS on United Airlines 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: 44 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Houston to Round Rock 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: 5 hours

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

Plan a trip to Round Rock

Trippy has a ton of information that can help you plan your trip to Round Rock, Texas. Start by reading the Trippy page on where to stay in Round Rock. A great place to eat might be Rudy's. Trippy members can suggest things to do in Round Rock like The Domain. Check out some of the questions people have asked about Round Rock like Best free things to do in Round Rock?. Click the button below to explore Round Rock in detail.

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 Round Rock to Houston, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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