How far is Tampa from St Petersburg

The driving distance from Tampa, Florida to Saint Petersburg, Florida is:

24 miles / 39 km

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The total driving distance from Tampa, FL to Saint Petersburg, FL is 24 miles or 39 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Tampa, Florida. It ends in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Tampa, FL to Saint Petersburg, FL 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 Tampa, FL and Saint Petersburg, FL.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Tampa, FL to Saint Petersburg, FL.

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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.

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Saint Petersburg, Florida and Tampa, 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: 18 miles or 29 km

Flight time: 32 minutes

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

Saint Petersburg (Florida) to Tampa road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Tampa, 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: 53 minutes on the road

Itinerary

Start in Saint Petersburg (Florida).

Drive for about 5 minutes, then stop at Downtown and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 16 minutes then stop at Brewers Tasting Room and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 17 minutes then stop at Big Cat Rescue Sanctuary and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 13 minutes then stop at Ybor City and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 6 minutes and arrive in Tampa.

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:

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Tampa, Florida and Saint Petersburg, 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: 18 miles or 29 km

Flight time: 32 minutes

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

Tampa to Saint Petersburg (Florida) road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Saint Petersburg (Florida), 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: 44 minutes on the road

Itinerary

Start in Tampa.

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:

Plan a trip to Saint Petersburg (Florida)

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