What is the distance from Lake City to Jacksonville?

The driving distance from Lake City, Florida to Jacksonville, Florida is:

61 miles / 98 km

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The driving distance from Lake City, Florida to Jacksonville, Florida is:
61 miles / 98 km
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The driving distance from Jacksonville, Florida to Lake City, Florida is:
61 miles / 98 km
Map of driving directions from Jacksonville, FL to Lake City, FL
More trip calculations
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Driving non-stop from Lake City (Florida) to Jacksonville
Flying non-stop from Lake City (Florida) to Jacksonville
Lake City (Florida) to Jacksonville road trip
Lake City (Florida) to Jacksonville airports and flights
How far is it the other way?
Why is Jacksonville Florida so popular?
Is it worth visiting Jacksonville Florida?
Why is Jacksonville so big?
What cities are 2 hours away from Jacksonville?

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Map of driving directions from Lake City, FL to Jacksonville, FL

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The total driving distance from Lake City, FL to Jacksonville, FL is 61 miles or 98 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Lake City, Florida. It ends in Jacksonville, Florida.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Lake City, FL to Jacksonville, FL 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 Lake City, FL and Jacksonville, FL.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Lake City, FL to Jacksonville, FL.

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 Jacksonville, Florida to Lake City, Florida is:

61 miles / 98 km

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Map of driving directions from Jacksonville, FL to Lake City, FL

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 Jacksonville to Lake City with directions.

More trip calculations

The total driving distance from Jacksonville, FL to Lake City, FL is 61 miles or 98 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Jacksonville, Florida. It ends in Lake City, Florida.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Jacksonville, FL to Lake City, FL 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 Jacksonville, FL and Lake City, FL.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Jacksonville, FL to Lake City, FL.

Driving distance calculator

Driving non-stop from Lake City (Florida) to Jacksonville

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

Nonstop drive: 61 miles or 98 km

Driving time: 1 hour, 2 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 Lake City (Florida) to Jacksonville

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Lake City, Florida and Jacksonville, Florida. 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: 60 miles or 96 km

Flight time: 37 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 1 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 1.0x of the flight distance.

Your plane flies much faster than a car, so the flight time is about 1/2th 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.

Lake City (Florida) to Jacksonville road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Jacksonville, 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: 1.5 hours on the road

Itinerary

Start in Lake City (Florida).

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:

Lake City (Florida) to Jacksonville 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: Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV)

Arrival airport: Jacksonville International Airport (JAX)

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: 123 minutes

Getting to your destination: 33 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from GNV to JAX 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: 37 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Lake City (Florida) to Jacksonville 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:

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 Jacksonville to Lake City (Florida), or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

If you happen to know Lake City (Florida), don't forget to help other travelers and answer some questions about Lake City (Florida)!

Why is Jacksonville Florida so popular?

As you can see, Jacksonville, Florida is a great place to live. Home to over 850 square miles of clean beaches and coastline, the city is full of natural beauty and wildlife. Thanks to the affordable cost of living, growing job opportunities, and endless amounts of entertainment, the population continues to grow.

Is it worth visiting Jacksonville Florida?

One of the largest cities in Florida, Jacksonville has a lot going for it! From an unspoilt coastline, gorgeous beaches and galleries galore, there's a heap of the best things to do in Jacksonville dotted all across the city.

Why is Jacksonville so big?

The only reason the city of Jacksonville looms so large in the rankings (it's technically the largest city by land area in the continental U.S.) is that it legally merged with surrounding Duval County back in 1968, swallowing up most of its own suburbs.