The driving distance from Houston, Texas to Lubbock, Texas is:
532 miles / 856 km
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The total driving distance from Houston, TX to Lubbock, TX is 532 miles or 856 kilometers.
Your trip begins in Houston, Texas. It ends in Lubbock, Texas.
If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Houston, TX to Lubbock, TX so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.
You can also calculate the cost of driving from Houston, TX to Lubbock, TX based on current local fuel 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 Houston, TX and Lubbock, TX.
Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Houston, TX to Lubbock, TX.
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The distance from Lubbock, Texas to Houston, Texas is:
532 miles / 856 km driving
464 miles / 746 km flying
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Distance from Lubbock, TX to Houston, TX
The total driving distance from Lubbock, TX to Houston, TX is 532 miles or 856 kilometers.
The total straight line flight distance from Lubbock, TX to Houston, TX is 464 miles.
This is equivalent to 746 kilometers or 403 nautical miles.
Your trip begins in Lubbock, Texas. It ends in Houston, Texas.
Your flight direction from Lubbock, TX to Houston, TX is Southeast (123 degrees from North).
The distance calculator helps you figure out how far it is to get from Lubbock, TX to Houston, TX. 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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Travelmath helps you find distances based on actual road trip directions, or the straight line flight distance. You can get the distance between cities, airports, states, countries, or zip codes to figure out the best route to travel to your destination. Compare the results to the straight line distance to determine whether it's better to drive or fly. The database uses the latitude and longitude of each location to calculate distance using the great circle distance formula. The calculation is done using the Vincenty algorithm and the WGS84 ellipsoid model of the Earth, which is the same one used by most GPS receivers. This gives you the flying distance "as the crow flies." Find your flight distances quickly to estimate the number of frequent flyer miles you'll accumulate. Or ask how far is it between cities to solve your homework problems. You can lookup U.S. cities, or expand your search to get the world distance for international trips. You can also print out pages with a travel map.
Driving non-stop from Houston to Lubbock
How far is Lubbock from Houston? Here's the quick answer if you don't sleep at all, or you have a friend with you so each person can drive some of the way, letting you make the entire trip by car without stopping.
Nonstop drive: 532 miles or 856 km
Driving time: 8 hours, 3 minutes
This is a pretty long drive, so it's not very realistic to drive nonstop. To get a better idea of how long this road trip would really be, scroll down to calculate how many hours it would take if you drive with stops.
Flying non-stop from Houston to Lubbock
Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Houston, Texas and Lubbock, Texas. 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: 464 miles or 747 km
Flight time: 1 hour, 12 minutes
The straight line flight distance is 68 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 1.1x of the flight distance.
Your plane flies much faster than a car, so the flight time is about 1/5th 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.
Houston to Lubbock road trip
Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Lubbock, 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: 9.5 hours on the road with 1 overnight
Itinerary
Start in Houston.
Drive for about 1.5 hours, then stop in Brenham and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 56 minutes then stop in Lexington and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1 hour then stop in Temple. Stay overnight.
The next day, drive for about 2 hours, then stop in Sidney (Texas) and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1.5 hours then stop in Abilene and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1.5 hours then stop in Snyder (Texas) and stay for 1 hour.
Finally, drive for about 1.5 hours and arrive in Lubbock.
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:
Houston to Lubbock 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: George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)
Arrival airport: Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (LBB)
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: 46 minutes
Getting to your destination: 19 minutes
Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from IAH to LBB on United Airlines 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, 32 minutes
So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Houston to Lubbock 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:
Plan a trip to Lubbock
Trippy has a ton of information that can help you plan your trip to Lubbock, Texas. Start by reading the Trippy page on where to stay in Lubbock. Check out some of the questions people have asked about Lubbock like Places in Lubbock to see. Click the button below to explore Lubbock in detail.
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 Lubbock to Houston, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.
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