Is Albany NY close to NYC?

150 miles / 241 km driving135 miles / 217 km flying

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Distance from Albany, NY to New York, NY

The total driving distance from Albany, NY to New York, NY is 150 miles or 241 kilometers.

The total straight line flight distance from Albany, NY to New York, NY is 135 miles.

This is equivalent to 217 kilometers or 117 nautical miles.

Your trip begins in Albany, New York. It ends in New York, New York.

Your flight direction from Albany, NY to New York, NY is South (-174 degrees from North).

The distance calculator helps you figure out how far it is to get from Albany, NY to New York, NY. It does this by computing the straight line flying distance ("as the crow flies") and the driving distance if the route is drivable. It uses all this data to compute the total travel mileage.

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Driving non-stop from Albany (New York) to New York City

How far is New York City from Albany (New York)? Here's the quick answer if you drive this relatively short distance without making any stops.

Nonstop drive: 150 miles or 241 km

Driving time: 2 hours, 38 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 Albany (New York) to New York City

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Albany, New York and New York, New York. 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: 134 miles or 216 km

Flight time: 34 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 16 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 1/3th 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.

Albany (New York) to New York City road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to New York City, 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 Albany (New York).

Drive for about 43 minutes, then stop in Catskill and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 33 minutes then stop in Woodstock (New York) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 50 minutes then stop in Poughkeepsie and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 58 minutes then stop in West Point (New York) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 52 minutes then stop at The Cloisters and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 22 minutes and arrive in New York City.

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:

Albany (New York) to New York City 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: Albany International Airport (ALB)

Arrival airport: John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)

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: 21 minutes

Getting to your destination: 38 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from ALB to JFK 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: 1 hour, 3 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Albany (New York) to New York City 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 New York City to Albany (New York), or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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