How far is Orlando from Panama City?

How far is it between Panama City and Orlando

Panama City is located in United States with (30.1595,-85.6598) coordinates and Orlando is located in United States with (28.5383,-81.3792) coordinates. The calculated flying distance from Panama City to Orlando is equal to 281 miles which is equal to 452 km.

If you want to go by car, the driving distance between Panama City and Orlando is 580.34 km. If you ride your car with an average speed of 112 kilometers/hour (70 miles/h), travel time will be 05 hours 10 minutes. Please check the avg. speed travel time table on the right for various options.
Difference between fly and go by a car is 128 km.

Driving non-stop from Panama City (Florida) to Orlando

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

Nonstop drive: 357 miles or 575 km

Driving time: 5 hours, 23 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 Panama City (Florida) to Orlando

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Panama City, Florida and Orlando, Florida. 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: 281 miles or 453 km

Flight time: 46 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 76 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 1.3x 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 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.

Panama City (Florida) to Orlando road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Orlando, 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: 7.5 hours on the road with 1 overnight

Itinerary

Start in Panama City (Florida).

Drive for about 1.5 hours, then stop at Tallahassee Museum and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1.5 hours then stop in Jennings (Florida) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 43 minutes then stop in Lake City (Florida). Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 55 minutes, then stop in Gainesville and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 42 minutes then stop in Ocala and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1 hour then stop in Mt Dora and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 42 minutes and arrive in Orlando.

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:

Panama City (Florida) to Orlando 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: Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP)

Arrival airport: Orlando International Airport (MCO)

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: 45 minutes

Getting to your destination: 26 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from ECP to MCO 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

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Panama City (Florida) to Orlando 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:

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 Orlando to Panama City (Florida), or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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