The driving distance from Yuma, Arizona to Phoenix, Arizona is:
186 miles / 299 km
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The total driving distance from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ is 186 miles or 299 kilometers.
Your trip begins in Yuma, Arizona. It ends in Phoenix, Arizona.
If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.
You can also calculate the cost of driving from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ 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 Yuma, AZ and Phoenix, AZ.
Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ.
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The distance from Yuma, Arizona to Phoenix, Arizona is:
186 miles / 299 km driving
157 miles / 253 km flying
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Distance from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ
The total driving distance from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ is 186 miles or 299 kilometers.
The total straight line flight distance from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ is 157 miles.
This is equivalent to 253 kilometers or 136 nautical miles.
Your trip begins in Yuma, Arizona. It ends in Phoenix, Arizona.
Your flight direction from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ is East (70 degrees from North).
The distance calculator helps you figure out how far it is to get from Yuma, AZ to Phoenix, AZ. 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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Distance calculator
Travelmath helps you find distances based on actual road trip directions, or the straight line flight distance. You can get the distance between cities, airports, states, countries, or zip codes to figure out the best route to travel to your destination. Compare the results to the straight line distance to determine whether it's better to drive or fly. The database uses the latitude and longitude of each location to calculate distance using the great circle distance formula. The calculation is done using the Vincenty algorithm and the WGS84 ellipsoid model of the Earth, which is the same one used by most GPS receivers. This gives you the flying distance "as the crow flies." Find your flight distances quickly to estimate the number of frequent flyer miles you'll accumulate. Or ask how far is it between cities to solve your homework problems. You can lookup U.S. cities, or expand your search to get the world distance for international trips. You can also print out pages with a travel map.
Driving non-stop from Yuma to Phoenix
How far is Phoenix from Yuma? Here's the quick answer if you drive this relatively short distance without making any stops.
Nonstop drive: 186 miles or 299 km
Driving time: 2 hours, 45 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 Yuma to Phoenix
Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Yuma, Arizona and Phoenix, Arizona. 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: 156 miles or 251 km
Flight time: 34 minutes
The straight line flight distance is 30 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 1/3th 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.
Yuma to Phoenix road trip
Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Phoenix, 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 hours on the road
Itinerary
Start in Yuma.
Drive for about 34 minutes, then stop in Wellton and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 34 minutes then stop in Dateland (Arizona) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 44 minutes then stop in Gila Bend (Arizona) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 44 minutes then stop at Maricopa County and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 36 minutes then stop in Surprise (Arizona) and stay for 1 hour.
Finally, drive for about 38 minutes and arrive in Phoenix.
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:
Yuma to Phoenix 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: Yuma International Airport (YUM)
Arrival airport: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)
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: 15 minutes
Getting to your destination: 11 minutes
Now finally, let's look at an example flight from YUM to PHX 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: 58 minutes
So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Yuma to Phoenix 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: 3 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 Phoenix to Yuma, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.
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