How far is it from Mobile to New?

The driving distance from Mobile, Alabama to New Orleans, Louisiana is:

144 miles / 232 km

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Map of driving directions from Mobile, AL to New Orleans, LA

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The total driving distance from Mobile, AL to New Orleans, LA is 144 miles or 232 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Mobile, Alabama. It ends in New Orleans, Louisiana.

If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Mobile, AL to New Orleans, LA so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Mobile, AL to New Orleans, LA 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 Mobile, AL and New Orleans, LA.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Mobile, AL to New Orleans, LA.

There are many ways to get around New Orleans. Taking a streetcar is the most fascinating way to see New Orleans. New Orleans has the world’s oldest continuously operating streetcars. St. Charles, Canal Street and the Riverfront are the three streetcar lines in New Orleans.

St. Charles is the oldest and most popular line for tourists. Ride along St. Charles Avenue and Carrollton Avenue through historical sites, mansions, historic monuments, universities, hotels, shopping centers and restaurants.

Take a self-guided tour of the historical homes of St. Charles Avenue. Check out The Diocesan House at 2265 St. Charles Avenue, The Marigny at 2524 St. Charles Avenue, The Morris-Downman Home at 2525, The Monlezun House on 2714, Elms Mansion at 3029, The Columns at 3811, The Smith House at 4534, The Anthemion at 4631, The Brown Mansion at 4717, Coe House of Eastlake at 4905, The Rosenberg House at 4920, The Stirling House at 4930, The Latter Library at 5120 and The Wedding Cake House at 5807.

For a list of homes along St. Charles Avenue and more info please check out neworleansonline.com.

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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.

Driving non-stop from New Orleans to Mobile

How far is Mobile from New Orleans? Here's the quick answer if you drive this relatively short distance without making any stops.

Nonstop drive: 144 miles or 232 km

Driving time: 2 hours, 6 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 New Orleans to Mobile

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama. 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: 132 miles or 212 km

Flight time: 46 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 12 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 1/3th 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.

New Orleans to Mobile road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Mobile, 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: 3.5 hours on the road

Itinerary

Start in New Orleans.

Drive for about 54 minutes, then stop at Honey Island Swamp and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 33 minutes then stop at Park Ten Lanes and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 45 minutes then stop in Biloxi and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1 hour then stop at USS Alabama and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 6 minutes and arrive in Mobile.

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:

New Orleans to Mobile 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: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)

Arrival airport: Mobile Regional Airport (MOB)

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: 34 minutes

Getting to your destination: 36 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from MSY to MOB 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: 46 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from New Orleans to Mobile 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 Mobile

Trippy has a ton of information that can help you plan your trip to Mobile, Alabama. Start by reading the Trippy page on where to stay in Mobile. Check out some of the questions people have asked about Mobile like Bus pickup/drop off location?. Click the button below to explore Mobile 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 Mobile to New Orleans, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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