How far is lexington, kentucky from nashville, tennessee

The distance from Lexington, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee is:

217 miles / 349 km driving181 miles / 291 km flying

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Distance from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN

The total driving distance from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN is 217 miles or 349 kilometers.

The total straight line flight distance from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN is 181 miles.

This is equivalent to 291 kilometers or 157 nautical miles.

Your trip begins in Lexington, Kentucky. It ends in Nashville, Tennessee.

Your flight direction from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN is Southwest (-135 degrees from North).

The distance calculator helps you figure out how far it is to get from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN. 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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The driving distance from Lexington, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee is:

217 miles / 349 km

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Map of driving directions from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN

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The total driving distance from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN is 217 miles or 349 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Lexington, Kentucky. It ends in Nashville, Tennessee.

If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN 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 Lexington, KY and Nashville, TN.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Lexington, KY to Nashville, TN.

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 Nashville to Lexington

How far is Lexington from Nashville? Here's the quick answer if you are able to make this entire trip by car without stopping.

Nonstop drive: 217 miles or 349 km

Driving time: 3 hours, 16 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 Nashville to Lexington

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Nashville, Tennessee and Lexington, Kentucky. 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: 179 miles or 288 km

Flight time: 51 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 38 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 1/4th 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.

Nashville to Lexington road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Lexington, 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: 4.5 hours on the road

Itinerary

Start in Nashville.

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:

Nashville to Lexington 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: Nashville International Airport (BNA)

Arrival airport: Blue Grass Airport (LEX)

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: 19 minutes

Getting to your destination: 23 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from BNA to LEX 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: 51 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Nashville to Lexington 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:

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 Lexington to Nashville, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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

Why is Lexington Ky famous?

The city of Lexington, home to the University of Kentucky and an important economic and cultural center, lies in the heart of Bluegrass Country. The region is famed for its horse breeding, and Lexington claims the title of "horse capital of the world." The horse paddocks enclosed by white fences are common sights.

Is Pigeon Forge close to Nashville?

Getting from Pigeon Forge to Nashville by car takes about 4 hours. Other options: fly; or do a combination of car, bus, and subway. You'll gain 1 hour traveling from Pigeon Forge to Nashville due to the time zone difference.

How far apart is Lexington and Louisville?

There are 69.74 miles from Lexington to Louisville in northwest direction and 78 miles (125.53 kilometers) by car, following the I-64 W route. Lexington and Louisville are 1 hour 16 mins far apart, if you drive non-stop . This is the fastest route from Lexington, KY to Louisville, KY.