How far is kansas from houston texas

791 miles / 1 273 km

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Driving distance from Houston, TX to Kansas City, KS

The total driving distance from Houston, TX to Kansas City, KS is 791 miles or 1 273 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Houston, Texas. It ends in Kansas City, Kansas.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Houston, TX to Kansas City, KS 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 Houston, TX and Kansas City, KS.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Houston, TX to Kansas City, KS.

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The driving distance from Kansas (KS) to Houston, Texas is:

684 miles / 1 101 km

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The total driving distance from Kansas to Houston, TX is 684 miles or 1 101 kilometers.

Your trip begins in the state of Kansas. It ends in Houston, Texas.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Kansas to Houston, TX 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 and Houston, TX.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Kansas to Houston, TX.

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Driving non-stop from Kansas City (Kansas) to Houston

How far is Houston from Kansas City (Kansas)? 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: 791 miles or 1273 km

Driving time: 11 hours, 18 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 Kansas City (Kansas) to Houston

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Kansas City, Kansas and Houston, 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: 646 miles or 1040 km

Flight time: 1 hour, 35 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 145 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 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.

Kansas City (Kansas) to Houston road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Houston, 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: 14.5 hours on the road with 1 overnight

Itinerary

Start in Kansas City (Kansas).

Drive for about 58 minutes, then stop in Topeka and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 2 hours then stop in Wichita and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1.5 hours then stop in Ponca City and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 2 hours then stop in Oklahoma City. Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 1.5 hours, then stop at Chickasaw Cultural Center and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 2.5 hours then stop in Dallas and stay for 3 hours. Drive for 3 hours then stop in Montgomery (Texas) and stay for 1 hour.

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

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:

Kansas City (Kansas) to Houston 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: Kansas City International Airport (MCI)

Arrival airport: George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)

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: 40 minutes

Getting to your destination: 46 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from MCI to IAH 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, 50 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Kansas City (Kansas) to Houston 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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Plan a trip to Houston

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

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

How far is Kansas from Houston by plane?

Flight Summary The flight time from Houston to Kansas City is 1 hour, 55 minutes. The time spent in the air is 1 hour, 32 minutes. The flight distance from Houston to Kansas City is 643 Miles.

How far is Kansas from Texas by plane?

The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Kansas and Texas is 792 km= 492 miles. If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Kansas to Texas, It takes 0.88 hours to arrive.

How far is Kansas for Houston TX?

The total driving distance from Kansas to Houston, TX is 684 miles or 1 101 kilometers.

Is Kansas close to Houston?

How far is the distance between Kansas City and Houston? The direct drive from Kansas City, United States to Houston, United States is 794 miles or 1277 km, and should have a drive time of 12 hours in normal traffic.