514 miles / 827 km
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Driving distance from Cleveland, OH to North Carolina
The total driving distance from Cleveland, OH to North Carolina is 514 miles or 827 kilometers.
Your trip begins in Cleveland, Ohio. It ends in the state of North Carolina.
If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Cleveland, OH to North Carolina so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.
You can also calculate the cost of driving from Cleveland, OH to North Carolina 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 Cleveland, OH and North Carolina.
Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Cleveland, OH to North Carolina.
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514 miles / 827 km
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Map of driving directions from North Carolina to Cleveland, OH
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Driving distance from North Carolina to Cleveland, OH
The total driving distance from North Carolina to Cleveland, OH is 514 miles or 827 kilometers.
Your trip begins in the state of North Carolina. It ends in Cleveland, Ohio.
If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from North Carolina to Cleveland, OH so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.
You can also calculate the cost of driving from North Carolina to Cleveland, OH 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 North Carolina and Cleveland, OH.
Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from North Carolina to Cleveland, OH.
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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.
Driving non-stop from Cleveland to North Carolina
How far is North Carolina from Cleveland? 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, 52 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 Cleveland to North Carolina
Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Cleveland, Ohio and North Carolina (NC). 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: 416 miles or 670 km
Flight time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
The straight line flight distance is 98 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.
Cleveland to North Carolina road trip
Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to North Carolina, 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: 9.5 hours on the road with 1 overnight
Itinerary
Start in Cleveland.
Drive for about 1 hour, then stop in Canton (Ohio) and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1.5 hours then stop in Caldwell (Ohio) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 2 hours then stop in Charleston (West Virginia). Stay overnight.
The next day, drive for about 1 hour, then stop in Beckley and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1.5 hours then stop in Fort Chiswell and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 2 hours then stop in Greensboro and stay for 1 hour.
Finally, drive for about 1 hour and arrive at North Carolina.
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:
Cleveland to North Carolina 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: Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE)
Arrival airport: Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO)
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: 31 minutes
Getting to your destination: 96 minutes
Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from CLE to GSO 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, 20 minutes
So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Cleveland to North Carolina 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:
Plan a trip to North Carolina
Trippy has a ton of information that can help you plan your trip to North Carolina (NC). Start by reading the Trippy page on where to stay in North Carolina. Check out some of the questions people have asked about North Carolina like Best Beaches in North Carolina?. Click the button below to explore North Carolina 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 North Carolina to Cleveland, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.
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