How far is Louisville Kentucky from Ohio?

The distance from Louisville, Kentucky to Ohio (OH) is:

250 miles / 402 km driving217 miles / 349 km flying

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Distance from Louisville, KY to Ohio

The total driving distance from Louisville, KY to Ohio is 250 miles or 402 kilometers.

The total straight line flight distance from Louisville, KY to Ohio is 217 miles.

This is equivalent to 349 kilometers or 188 nautical miles.

Your trip begins in Louisville, Kentucky. It ends in the state of Ohio.

Your flight direction from Louisville, KY to Ohio is Northeast (47 degrees from North).

The distance calculator helps you figure out how far it is to get from Louisville, KY to Ohio. 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 Ohio (OH) to Louisville, Kentucky is:

250 miles / 402 km

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The total driving distance from Ohio to Louisville, KY is 250 miles or 402 kilometers.

Your trip begins in the state of Ohio. It ends in Louisville, Kentucky.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Ohio to Louisville, KY 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 Ohio and Louisville, KY.

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

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 Louisville to Columbus

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

Nonstop drive: 211 miles or 340 km

Driving time: 3 hours, 15 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 Louisville to Columbus

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Louisville, Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio. 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: 189 miles or 305 km

Flight time: 53 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 22 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 1/4th 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.

Louisville to Columbus road trip

Realistically, you're not going to want to drive without stopping all the way from Louisville to Columbus, especially if you're the main driver. So let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Columbus, and you need to stop along the way to rest. Plus if it's a real road trip, you might want to check out interesting stops along the way, eat at great restaurants, and 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 a number of days.

Road trip: 3 days of driving

With the full itinerary planned out, we can estimate your total travel time for this trip.

Travel time: 24.5 hours on the road with 2 overnights

Itinerary

Start in Louisville.

Drive for about 1.5 hours, then stop in Warsaw (Kentucky) and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 40 minutes then stop in Williamstown (Kentucky) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 53 minutes then stop in Cincinnati and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 48 minutes then stop in Centerville (Ohio). Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 4 hours, then stop in Yellow Springs and stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 14.5 hours, then stop in Grandview Heights and stay overnight.

Finally, drive for about 2.5 hours and arrive in Columbus.

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:

Louisville to Columbus 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: Louisville International Airport (SDF)

Arrival airport: Port Columbus International Airport (CMH)

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: 17 minutes

Getting to your destination: 19 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from SDF to CMH 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: 53 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Louisville to Columbus 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: 3 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 Columbus to Louisville, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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

How far is Louisville Kentucky from the Ohio state line?

The total driving distance from Louisville, KY to Ohio is 250 miles or 402 kilometers.

Why is Louisville Kentucky Famous?

Today, the city is known as the home of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six Fortune 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands.