How many hours is it from Ohio to Minnesota?

The driving time from Ohio (OH) to Minnesota (MN) is:

12 hours, 34 minutes

Average driving speed: 64.1 mph
Kilometers per hour: 103.1 km/h
This is based on typical traffic conditions for this route.

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How long is the drive from Ohio to Minnesota? The total driving time is 12 hours, 34 minutes.

Your trip begins in the state of Ohio. It ends in the state of Minnesota.

If you're planning a road trip, you might be interested in seeing the total driving distance from Ohio to Minnesota.

You can also calculate the cost to drive from Ohio to Minnesota based on current local gas 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 Ohio and Minnesota.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the flight time from Ohio to Minnesota.

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The driving time from Minnesota (MN) to Ohio (OH) is:

12 hours, 34 minutes

Average driving speed: 64.1 mph
Kilometers per hour: 103.1 km/h
This is based on typical traffic conditions for this route.

Map of driving directions from Minnesota to Ohio

View a map with driving directions using your preferred map provider: Google Maps, Bing Maps, or MapQuest.

More trip calculations

How long is the drive from Minnesota to Ohio? The total driving time is 12 hours, 34 minutes.

Your trip begins in the state of Minnesota. It ends in the state of Ohio.

If you're planning a road trip, you might be interested in seeing the total driving distance from Minnesota to Ohio.

You can also calculate the cost to drive from Minnesota to Ohio based on current local gas 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 Minnesota and Ohio.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the flight time from Minnesota to Ohio.

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Driving non-stop from Ohio to Minnesota

How far is Minnesota from Ohio? Here's the quick answer if you have friends taking shifts as driver so that you can make the entire trip by car without stopping.

Nonstop drive: 806 miles or 1297 km

Driving time: 12 hours, 34 minutes

This is a really long drive, so it's not very realistic to drive nonstop. To get a better idea of how long this road trip would actually take, scroll down to calculate how many hours it would be if you drive with stops.

Flying non-stop from Ohio to Minnesota

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Ohio (OH) and Minnesota (MN). 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: 674 miles or 1084 km

Flight time: 1 hour, 51 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 132 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 1/7th 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.

Ohio to Minnesota road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Minnesota, 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: 16.5 hours on the road with 1 overnight

Itinerary

Start at Ohio.

Drive for about 2 hours, then stop in Lima (Ohio) and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 2 hours then stop in Warsaw and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 2.5 hours then stop in Chicago. Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 2.5 hours, then stop in Madison (Wisconsin) and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 2.5 hours then stop in La Crosse (Wisconsin) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 2.5 hours then stop in Minneapolis and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 3 hours and arrive at Minnesota.

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:

Ohio to Minnesota 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: Port Columbus International Airport (CMH)

Arrival airport: St. Cloud Regional Airport (STC)

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: 80 minutes

Getting to your destination: 44 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from CMH to STC 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, 51 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Ohio to Minnesota 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: 6 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 Minnesota to Ohio, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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

How many hours is from Minnesota to Ohio car?

How long is the drive from Minnesota to Ohio? The total driving time is 12 hours, 34 minutes. Your trip begins in the state of Minnesota.

How far is Ohio from Minnesota by plane?

The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Minnesota and Ohio is 1,180 km= 733 miles. If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Minnesota to Ohio, It takes 1.31 hours to arrive.