How far is Ft Myers from Miami?

The driving distance from Fort Myers, Florida to Miami, Florida is:

156 miles / 251 km

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How far is Ft Myers from Miami?


Map of driving directions from Fort Myers, FL to Miami, FL

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More trip calculations

The total driving distance from Fort Myers, FL to Miami, FL is 156 miles or 251 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Fort Myers, Florida. It ends in Miami, Florida.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Fort Myers, FL to Miami, 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 Fort Myers, FL and Miami, FL.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Fort Myers, FL to Miami, FL.




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.

How far is it between Miami and Fort Myers

Miami is located in United States with (25.7743,-80.1937) coordinates and Fort Myers is located in United States with (26.6217,-81.8406) coordinates. The calculated flying distance from Miami to Fort Myers is equal to 118 miles which is equal to 189 km.

If you want to go by car, the driving distance between Miami and Fort Myers is 247.72 km. If you ride your car with an average speed of 112 kilometers/hour (70 miles/h), travel time will be 02 hours 12 minutes. Please check the avg. speed travel time table on the right for various options.
Difference between fly and go by a car is 59 km.

City/PlaceLatitude and LongitudeGPS Coordinates
Miami 25.7743, -80.1937 25° 46´ 27.3720'' N
80° 11´ 37.1760'' W
Fort Myers 26.6217, -81.8406 26° 37´ 18.0480'' N
81° 50´ 26.1240'' W

Driving non-stop from Fort Myers to Miami

How far is Miami from Fort Myers? Here's the quick answer if you drive this relatively short distance without making any stops.

Nonstop drive: 156 miles or 251 km

Driving time: 2 hours, 21 minutes

Even though you can drive this distance straight through, it might be more interesting to stop along the way. You can scroll down to calculate how many hours it would take if you drive with stops.



Flying non-stop from Fort Myers to Miami

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Fort Myers, Florida and Miami, 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: 120 miles or 193 km

Flight time: 29 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 36 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 1/3th 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.




Fort Myers to Miami road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Miami, 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: 5.5 hours on the road


Itinerary

Start in Fort Myers.

Drive for about 48 minutes, then stop in Sanibel and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1.5 hours then stop in Naples (Florida) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1 hour then stop at Alligator Alley and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 43 minutes then stop at Everglades National Park and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 49 minutes then stop in Fort Lauderdale and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 38 minutes and arrive in Miami.


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:


Fort Myers to Miami 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: Charlotte County Airport (PGD)

Arrival airport: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL)

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: 62 minutes

Getting to your destination: 62 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from PGD to FLL 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: 55 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Fort Myers to Miami 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: 5 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 Miami to Fort Myers, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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

Is Fort Myers close to Miami?

The distance between Fort Myers and Miami is 12 km.

How far is Fort Myers from Miami by plane?

Flight distance from Fort Myers to Miami (Southwest Florida International Airport – Miami International Airport) is 104 miles / 168 kilometers / 91 nautical miles. Estimated flight time is 41 minutes.

How long does it take to get to Miami to Fort Myers?

Traveling from Miami to Fort Myers It can take a minimum time of 2 hours 55 minutes.

How far is Disney from Fort Myers?

Yes, the driving distance between Fort Myers to Walt Disney World is 142 miles. It takes approximately 2h 57m to drive from Fort Myers to Walt Disney World.