How far is Kansas City from Dallas

The driving distance from Dallas, Texas to Kansas City, Missouri is:

507 miles / 816 km

Map of driving directions from Dallas, TX to Kansas City, MO

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The total driving distance from Dallas, TX to Kansas City, MO is 507 miles or 816 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Dallas, Texas. It ends in Kansas City, Missouri.

If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Dallas, TX to Kansas City, MO so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Dallas, TX to Kansas City, MO 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 Dallas, TX and Kansas City, MO.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Dallas, TX to Kansas City, MO.

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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.

The driving distance from Kansas City, Missouri to Dallas, Texas is:

507 miles / 816 km

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Map of driving directions from Kansas City, MO to Dallas, TX

View a map with driving directions using your preferred map provider: Google Maps, Bing Maps, or MapQuest. You can use DriveDistance.com to get the full driving distance from Kansas City to Dallas with directions.

More trip calculations

The total driving distance from Kansas City, MO to Dallas, TX is 507 miles or 816 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Kansas City, Missouri. It ends in Dallas, Texas.

If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Kansas City, MO to Dallas, TX so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Kansas City, MO to Dallas, 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 Kansas City, MO and Dallas, TX.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Kansas City, MO to Dallas, TX.

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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 Dallas to Kansas City (Kansas)

How far is Kansas City (Kansas) from Dallas? Here's the quick answer if you are able to make this entire trip by car without stopping.

Nonstop drive: 552 miles or 888 km

Driving time: 7 hours, 55 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 Dallas to Kansas City (Kansas)

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Dallas, Texas and Kansas City, Kansas. 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: 453 miles or 729 km

Flight time: 1 hour, 7 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 99 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 1.2x of the flight distance.

Your plane flies much faster than a car, so the flight time is about 1/6th 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.

Dallas to Kansas City (Kansas) road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Kansas City (Kansas), 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: 10.5 hours on the road with 1 overnight

Itinerary

Start in Dallas.

Drive for about 2.5 hours, then stop at Chickasaw Cultural Center and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1.5 hours then stop in Oklahoma City and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1.5 hours then stop in Blackwell. Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 1 hour, then stop in Wichita and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1.5 hours then stop in Toledo (Kansas) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1 hour then stop in Topeka and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 58 minutes and arrive in Kansas City (Kansas).

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:

Dallas to Kansas City (Kansas) 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: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)

Arrival airport: Kansas City International Airport (MCI)

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: 48 minutes

Getting to your destination: 40 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from DFW to MCI on American 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, 21 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Dallas to Kansas City (Kansas) 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 Kansas City (Kansas) to Dallas, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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