How far is Panama from Miami by car

The driving distance from Miami, Florida to Panama City, Florida is:

581 miles / 935 km

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Map of driving directions from Miami, FL to Panama City, FL

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The total driving distance from Miami, FL to Panama City, FL is 581 miles or 935 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Miami, Florida. It ends in Panama City, Florida.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Miami, FL to Panama City, FL 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 Miami, FL and Panama City, FL.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Miami, FL to Panama City, FL.

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.

79 hours, 46 minutes

Average driving speed: 50.6 mph
Kilometers per hour: 81.4 km/h
This is based on typical traffic conditions for this route.

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Map of driving directions from Miami, FL to Panama City, Panama

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Driving time from Miami, FL to Panama City, Panama

How long is the drive from Miami, FL to Panama City, Panama? The total driving time is 79 hours, 46 minutes.

Your trip begins in Miami, Florida. It ends in Panama City, Panama.

If you're planning a road trip, you might be interested in seeing the total driving distance from Miami, FL to Panama City, Panama.

You can also calculate the cost to drive from Miami, FL to Panama City, Panama based on current local gas 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 Miami, FL and Panama City, Panama.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the flight time from Miami, FL to Panama City, Panama.

Panama City, Panama

City: Panama City

Region: Panama

Country: Panama

Category: cities

Driving time calculator

Travelmath helps you find the driving time based on actual directions for your road trip. You can find out how long it will take to drive between any two cities, airports, states, countries, or zip codes. This can also help you plan the best route to travel to your destination. Compare the results with the flight time calculator to see how much longer it might take to drive the distance instead of flying. You can also print out pages with a travel map.

Driving non-stop from Miami to Panama City (Panama)

How far is Panama City (Panama) from Miami? Here's the quick answer if you have friends taking shifts as driver so that you can make the entire trip by car without stopping.

Nonstop drive: 4,037 miles or 6497 km

Driving time: 79 hours, 46 minutes

This is a really long drive, so it's not very realistic to drive nonstop. To get a better idea of how long this road trip would actually take, scroll down to calculate how many hours it would be if you drive with stops.

Flying non-stop from Miami to Panama City (Panama)

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Miami, Florida and Panama City, Panama. 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. For a long distance, this appears as a curve on the map, and this is often the route that commercial airlines will take so it's a good estimate of the frequent flyer miles you'll accumulate as well.

Flight distance: 1,156 miles or 1860 km

Flight time: 2 hours, 49 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 2,881 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 3.5x of the flight distance.

Your plane flies much faster than a car, so the flight time is about 1/28th of the time it would take to drive.

This is a medium length flight, so unless you have a nice private jet, you might be booking 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.

Miami to Panama City (Panama) road trip

Realistically, you're not going to want to drive without stopping all the way from Miami to Panama City (Panama), especially if you're the main driver. So let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Panama City (Panama), 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: 7 days of driving

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

Travel time: 80 hours on the road with 6 overnights

Itinerary

Start in Miami.

Drive for about 5 hours, then stop at Epcot and stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 13.5 hours, then stop in New Orleans and stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 5 hours, then stop in Houston and stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 11 hours, then stop in Tampico and stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 7.5 hours, then stop in Veracruz and stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 14 hours, then stop at Caye Caulker and stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 11 hours, then stop in Granada (Nicaragua) and stay overnight.

Finally, drive for about 12.5 hours and arrive in Panama City (Panama).

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:

Miami to Panama City (Panama) 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: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL)

Arrival airport: Tocumen International Airport (PTY)

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: 62 minutes

Getting to your destination: 33 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from FLL to PTY on Spirit 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: 2 hours, 49 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Miami to Panama City (Panama) 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: 6 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 Panama City (Panama) to Miami, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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

Can you drive from Florida to Panama?

Yes, the driving distance between Florida to Panama Canal is 5875 km. It takes approximately 3 days 2h to drive from Florida to Panama Canal.

How far is Panama from Florida by car?

Distance between Panama and Florida The miles based distance from Panama to Florida is 450.6 miles.

Can you go to Panama by car?

Travelers must fly to Colombia. Cars rented in Panama or Costa Rica cannot cross the border. Crossing in your own vehicle can sometimes be difficult as well, so it's usually easiest to just take a bus. Buses ply the Interamericana from all other Central American countries and continue on to Panama.