--- title: "Atlanta to Miami (ATL → MIA): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "Atlanta to Miami is 959 km (596 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 41m in the air. The route, what it flies over, and why the short way is not the straight line on a map." url: https://orbitflights.app/routes/atl-to-mia --- ATL → MIA # Atlanta to Miami: distance, flight time and the route it really takes Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta to Miami is 959 km of great circle — 596 mi — and an estimated 1h 41m in the air. Both ends are in North America. **Great circle** 959 km 596 mi **Estimated in the air** 1h 41m block time **Furthest from equator** 33.6°N at 0% along **One lap of Earth** 2.4% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 254th longest. The Atlanta to Miami route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From Atlanta the path crosses the United States. The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 33.6°N, 0% of the way along. Holding a single compass bearing the whole way would cover almost exactly the same ground, so on this route the flat map and the globe agree. The heading barely moves: south-east out of Atlanta, south-east into Miami. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass. One economy seat on it is about 142 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [ATL–MIA carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=ATL&to=MIA) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=ATL-MIA) From ATL ## Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Atlanta, United States · North America 33.6°N, 84.4°W [ATL airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/atl) To MIA ## Miami Miami, United States · North America 25.8°N, 80.3°W [MIA airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/mia) [Flights to Miami →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/miami) ## Atlanta to Miami, asked and answered **How far is Atlanta to Miami?** Atlanta to Miami (ATL to MIA) is 959 km, or 596 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from Atlanta to Miami?** About 1h 41m in the air. That is an estimate from the distance at a typical airliner block speed, plus half an hour for taxi, climb and descent; published schedules vary with winds and routing. **What route does a Atlanta to Miami flight take?** The great circle passes over the United States. It reaches 33.6°N at its furthest from the equator. ## Where these numbers come from Distances are computed from the two airports’ own coordinates, not looked up from published routes. Times are estimates, not schedules. [Why the shortest path is a curve →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/great-circle-routes-explained) ## Flown this one? Orbit logs it in two taps and draws the arc on your own globe, along with every other flight you can remember. Free for your first 15. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) ## Nearby routes [MIA → HAV Miami to Havana 379 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-hav) [JFK → MIA New York to Miami 1,757 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-mia) [MIA → PTY Miami to Panama City 1,862 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-pty) [MIA → BOG Miami to Bogotá 2,435 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-bog) [MIA → LIM Miami to Lima 4,219 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-lim) [MIA → GRU Miami to São Paulo 6,574 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-gru) ## Further reading [How many miles do you have to fly around the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/how-many-miles-to-fly-around-the-world) [What is on the exact opposite side of the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/opposite-side-of-the-world) [What's actually worth counting in a flight log](https://orbitflights.app/blog/what-is-worth-counting-in-a-flight-log) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/routes/atl-to-mia for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt