Distance from little rock arkansas to amarillo texas

The distance from Little Rock, Arkansas to Amarillo, Texas is:

597 miles / 961 km driving542 miles / 873 km flying

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Distance from Little Rock, AR to Amarillo, TX

The total driving distance from Little Rock, AR to Amarillo, TX is 597 miles or 961 kilometers.

The total straight line flight distance from Little Rock, AR to Amarillo, TX is 542 miles.

This is equivalent to 873 kilometers or 471 nautical miles.

Your trip begins in Little Rock, Arkansas. It ends in Amarillo, Texas.

Your flight direction from Little Rock, AR to Amarillo, TX is West (-84 degrees from North).

The distance calculator helps you figure out how far it is to get from Little Rock, AR to Amarillo, TX. 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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The driving distance from Amarillo, Texas to Little Rock, Arkansas is:

597 miles / 961 km

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Map of driving directions from Amarillo, TX to Little Rock, AR

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The total driving distance from Amarillo, TX to Little Rock, AR is 597 miles or 961 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Amarillo, Texas. It ends in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Amarillo, TX to Little Rock, AR based on current local fuel prices and an estimate of your car's best gas mileage.

Since this is a long drive, you might want to stop halfway and stay overnight in a hotel. You can find the city that is halfway between Amarillo, TX and Little Rock, AR.

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

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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 Little Rock to Amarillo

How far is Amarillo from Little Rock? Here's the quick answer if you don't sleep at all, or you have a friend with you so each person can drive some of the way, letting you make the entire trip by car without stopping.

Nonstop drive: 597 miles or 961 km

Driving time: 8 hours, 37 minutes

This is a pretty long drive, so it's not very realistic to drive nonstop. To get a better idea of how long this road trip would really be, scroll down to calculate how many hours it would take if you drive with stops.

Flying non-stop from Little Rock to Amarillo

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Little Rock, Arkansas and Amarillo, 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. For a long distance, this appears as a curve on the map, and this is often the route that commercial airlines will take so it's a good estimate of the frequent flyer miles you'll accumulate as well.

Flight distance: 542 miles or 872 km

Flight time: 1 hour, 35 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 55 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 1/5th of the time it would take to drive.

This is a medium length flight, so unless you have a nice private jet, you might be booking 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.

Little Rock to Amarillo road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Amarillo, 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: 10.5 hours on the road with 1 overnight

Itinerary

Start in Little Rock.

Drive for about 2.5 hours, then stop in Fort Smith and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1 hour then stop in Checotah and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 2 hours then stop in Oklahoma City. Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 1 hour, then stop in Weatherford (Oklahoma) and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 3 hours then stop at Leaning Tower of Texas and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 1 hour and arrive in Amarillo.

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:

Little Rock to Amarillo 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: Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field (LIT)

Arrival airport: Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (AMA)

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: 12 minutes

Getting to your destination: 21 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from LIT to AMA 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, 35 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Little Rock to Amarillo 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:

Plan a trip to Amarillo

Trippy has a ton of information that can help you plan your trip to Amarillo, Texas. Start by reading the Trippy page on where to stay in Amarillo. Check out some of the questions people have asked about Amarillo like THING TO SEE. Click the button below to explore Amarillo 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 Amarillo to Little Rock, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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

Why is Amarillo Texas famous?

Amarillo is a popular stop along Route 66 in Texas and is particularly famous for its delicious steak challenge at the The Big Texan Steak Ranch. The city is also home to many well-known theatres and art shows, as well as the popular space museum, the Don Harrington Discovery Center and the Space Theater.

How far is Amarillo Texas to the New Mexico border?

It is only about 50 miles from Amarillo to the New Mexico border, with the Old 66 Road passing through the small towns of Vega and Adrian.

What is the closest big city to Amarillo, TX?

Major cities near Amarillo, TX.

114 miles to Lubbock, TX..

244 miles to Oklahoma City, OK..

272 miles to Albuquerque, NM..

301 miles to Colorado Springs, CO..

306 miles to Wichita, KS..

306 miles to Fort Worth, TX..

317 miles to Arlington, TX..

355 miles to Aurora, CO..

How far apart are Lubbock and Amarillo?

There are 113.61 miles from Lubbock to Amarillo in north direction and 124 miles (199.56 kilometers) by car, following the I-27 N and US-87 N route. Lubbock and Amarillo are 1 hour 44 mins far apart, if you drive non-stop .