How far is the drive from New Orleans to Alabama?

The driving distance from New Orleans, Louisiana to Alabama (AL) is:

328 miles / 528 km

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The total driving distance from New Orleans, LA to Alabama is 328 miles or 528 kilometers.

Your trip begins in New Orleans, Louisiana. It ends in the state of Alabama.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from New Orleans, LA to Alabama 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 New Orleans, LA and Alabama.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from New Orleans, LA to Alabama.

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The driving distance from Alabama (AL) to New Orleans, Louisiana is:

328 miles / 528 km

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Map of driving directions from Alabama to New Orleans, LA

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The total driving distance from Alabama to New Orleans, LA is 328 miles or 528 kilometers.

Your trip begins in the state of Alabama. It ends in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Alabama to New Orleans, LA 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 Alabama and New Orleans, LA.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Alabama to New Orleans, LA.

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Driving non-stop from New Orleans to Alabama

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

Nonstop drive: 328 miles or 528 km

Driving time: 5 hours, 3 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 New Orleans to Alabama

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between New Orleans, Louisiana and Alabama (AL). 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: 275 miles or 443 km

Flight time: 1 hour, 3 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 53 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 1/5th 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.

New Orleans to Alabama road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Alabama, and you want to stop along the way to rest. If it's a real road trip, you might want to check out interesting stops along the way, eat at great restaurants, and maybe even find a hotel to stay overnight. That's what Trippy is perfect for, helping you figure out travel plans in detail.

Based on the length of this trip, we think you could spread out this fun road trip over more than one day.

Road trip: 2 days of driving

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

Travel time: 6 hours on the road with 1 overnight

Itinerary

Start in New Orleans.

Drive for about 54 minutes, then stop at Honey Island Swamp and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1 hour then stop in Biloxi and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1 hour then stop in Mobile. Stay overnight.

The next day, 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.

Finally, drive for about 54 minutes and arrive at 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:

New Orleans to 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: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)

Arrival airport: Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM)

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: 34 minutes

Getting to your destination: 126 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from MSY connecting through TPA and arriving at BHM flying on Southwest Airlines. We can figure out how long it would take to fly including take-off and landing, time to taxi on the runways, and an average layover time of about 2 hours.

Initial flight time: 1 hour, 21 minutes

Connecting airport: Tampa International Airport (TPA)

Connection flight time: 1 hour, 22 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from New Orleans to Alabama including time spent getting to and from the airports, roughly 2 hours at the departure airport for TSA security lines and waiting at the gate, plus the connecting flight with a 2-hour layover.

Total travel time: 9 hours

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

Plan a trip to Alabama

Trippy has a ton of information that can help you plan your trip to Alabama (AL). Start by reading the Trippy page on where to stay in Alabama. Check out some of the questions people have asked about Alabama like A few hours in Alabama . Click the button below to explore Alabama 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 Alabama to New Orleans, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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

How long it take to get to Alabama to New Orleans?

Yes, the driving distance between Alabama to New Orleans is 345 miles. It takes approximately 5h 44m to drive from Alabama to New Orleans.

Is Alabama close to New Orleans?

Distance from Alabama to New Orleans is 400 kilometers. The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Alabama and New Orleans is 400 km= 249 miles. If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Alabama to New Orleans, It takes 0.44 hours to arrive.

What state is closest to New Orleans?

What states are near New Orleans? Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Mississippi are the US states that are near New Orleans.

How long is a car ride from Atlanta to New Orleans?

The 680-mile road trip from Atlanta to New Orleans takes 11 hours to drive. Key stops include Birmingham, Jackson, Baton Rouge, Columbus, Tallahassee and Mobile as well as the Gulf Shores, Cheaha State Park, Lake Talquin State Forest and Panama City.