The distance from Fresno, California to Las Vegas, Nevada is:
400 miles / 644 km driving
262 miles / 421 km flying
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Distance from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV
The total driving distance from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV is 400 miles or 644 kilometers.
The total straight line flight distance from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV is 262 miles.
This is equivalent to 421 kilometers or 227 nautical miles.
Your trip begins in Fresno, California. It ends in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Your flight direction from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV is East (97 degrees from North).
The distance calculator helps you figure out how far it is to get from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV. It does this by computing the straight line flying distance ("as the crow flies") and the driving distance if the route is drivable. It uses all this data to compute the total travel mileage.
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The driving distance from Fresno, California to Las Vegas, Nevada is:
400 miles / 644 km
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Map of driving directions from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV
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The total driving distance from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV is 400 miles or 644 kilometers.
Your trip begins in Fresno, California. It ends in Las Vegas, Nevada.
If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.
You can also calculate the cost of driving from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV 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 Fresno, CA and Las Vegas, NV.
Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV.
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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 Fresno to Las Vegas
How far is Las Vegas from Fresno? Here's the quick answer if you are able to make this entire trip by car without stopping.
Nonstop drive: 400 miles or 644 km
Driving time: 6 hours, 6 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 Fresno to Las Vegas
Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Fresno, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. 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: 261 miles or 420 km
Flight time: 1 hour, 6 minutes
The straight line flight distance is 139 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 1.5x of the flight distance.
Your plane flies much faster than a car, so the flight time is about 1/4th 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.
Fresno to Las Vegas road trip
Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Las Vegas, 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 Fresno.
Drive for about 45 minutes, then stop in Visalia and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1.5 hours then stop in Bakersfield and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 43 minutes then stop in Tehachapi. Stay overnight.
The next day, drive for about 1.5 hours, then stop in Barstow and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1.5 hours then stop at Worlds tallest thermometer! and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1 hour then stop at Fashion Outlets of Las Vegas and stay for 1 hour.
Finally, drive for about 58 minutes and arrive in Las Vegas.
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:
Fresno to Las Vegas 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: Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT)
Arrival airport: McCarran International Airport (LAS)
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: 11 minutes
Getting to your destination: 20 minutes
Now finally, let's look at an example flight from FAT to LAS 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, 24 minutes
So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Fresno to Las Vegas 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:
Plan a trip to Las Vegas
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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 Las Vegas to Fresno, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.
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