How far is kansas city from chicago

The driving distance from Kansas City, Missouri to Chicago, Illinois is:

510 miles / 821 km

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The total driving distance from Kansas City, MO to Chicago, IL is 510 miles or 821 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Kansas City, Missouri. It ends in Chicago, Illinois.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Kansas City, MO to Chicago, IL 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 Kansas City, MO and Chicago, IL.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Kansas City, MO to Chicago, IL.

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The distance from Kansas City, Kansas to Chicago, Illinois is:

514 miles / 827 km driving415 miles / 668 km flying

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Distance from Kansas City, KS to Chicago, IL

The total driving distance from Kansas City, KS to Chicago, IL is 514 miles or 827 kilometers.

The total straight line flight distance from Kansas City, KS to Chicago, IL is 415 miles.

This is equivalent to 668 kilometers or 360 nautical miles.

Your trip begins in Kansas City, Kansas. It ends in Chicago, Illinois.

Your flight direction from Kansas City, KS to Chicago, IL is Northeast (60 degrees from North).

The distance calculator helps you figure out how far it is to get from Kansas City, KS to Chicago, IL. 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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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 Chicago to Kansas City (Kansas)

How far is Kansas City (Kansas) from Chicago? Here's the quick answer if you are able to make this entire trip by car without stopping.

Nonstop drive: 514 miles or 827 km

Driving time: 7 hours, 43 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 Chicago to Kansas City (Kansas)

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Kansas. 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: 415 miles or 668 km

Flight time: 1 hour, 7 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 99 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 1/6th 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.

Chicago to Kansas City (Kansas) road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Kansas City (Kansas), 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: 8.5 hours on the road with 1 overnight

Itinerary

Start in Chicago.

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Chicago to Kansas City (Kansas) 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: Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)

Arrival airport: Kansas City International Airport (MCI)

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: 47 minutes

Getting to your destination: 40 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from ORD to MCI on American Airlines 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, 21 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Chicago to Kansas City (Kansas) 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

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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 Kansas City (Kansas) to Chicago, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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

How far is Kansas City from Chicago by plane?

How long does a flight from Chicago to Kansas City take? The average nonstop flight takes 1h 31m, covering a distance of 412 miles.

Is Kansas City close to Chicago?

There are 412.35 miles from Kansas City to Chicago in northeast direction and 526 miles (846.51 kilometers) by car, following the I-35 N and MO 110 E route. Kansas City and Chicago are 7 hours 50 mins far apart, if you drive non-stop .

What is halfway between Chicago and KC?

Halfway between Kansas City, MO and Chicago, IL The town that marks the exact halfway point is actually Oxville, Illinois. The closest zip code to the midpoint is 62621. The exact latitude and longitude coordinates are 39° 41' 6" N and 90° 34' 44" W. The closest major city that is roughly halfway is Saint Louis, MO.

How far is Kansas from Chicago by train?

How long is the train journey from Chicago to Kansas City? The distance between Chicago and Kansas City is approximately 412 miles, or 664 kilometers. The average train journey between these two cities takes 10 hours and 50 minutes, although the absolute fastest you could get there is 7 hours and 10 minutes.