How far is tennessee from virginia beach

721 miles / 1 160 km

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Map of driving directions from Virginia Beach, VA to Nashville, TN

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Driving distance from Virginia Beach, VA to Nashville, TN

The total driving distance from Virginia Beach, VA to Nashville, TN is 721 miles or 1 160 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It ends in Nashville, Tennessee.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Virginia Beach, VA to Nashville, TN 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 Virginia Beach, VA and Nashville, TN.

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

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721 miles / 1 160 km

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Map of driving directions from Nashville, TN to Virginia Beach, VA

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Driving distance from Nashville, TN to Virginia Beach, VA

The total driving distance from Nashville, TN to Virginia Beach, VA is 721 miles or 1 160 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Nashville, Tennessee. It ends in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Nashville, TN to Virginia Beach, VA 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 Nashville, TN and Virginia Beach, VA.

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

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Distance from Tennessee to Virginia Beach is 965 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 600 miles.

The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Tennessee and Virginia Beach is 965 km= 600 miles.

If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Tennessee to Virginia Beach, It takes 1.07 hours to arrive.

Driving non-stop from Nashville to Virginia Beach

How far is Virginia Beach from Nashville? Here's the quick answer if you don't sleep at all, or you have a friend with you so each person can drive some of the way, letting you make the entire trip by car without stopping.

Nonstop drive: 721 miles or 1160 km

Driving time: 10 hours, 44 minutes

This is a pretty long drive, so it's not very realistic to drive nonstop. To get a better idea of how long this road 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 Virginia Beach

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Nashville, Tennessee and Virginia Beach, Virginia. 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: 603 miles or 970 km

Flight time: 1 hour, 23 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 118 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 1/7th 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.

Nashville to Virginia Beach road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Virginia Beach, 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: 12.5 hours on the road with 1 overnight

Itinerary

Start in Nashville.

Drive for about 2 hours, then stop in Crossville and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1 hour then stop in Knoxville and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1.5 hours then stop in Johnson City (Tennessee) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 3 hours then stop in Roanoke. Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 57 minutes, then stop in Lexington (Virginia) and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 1 hour then stop in Charlottesville and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 2 hours then stop in Williamsburg and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 1 hour and arrive in Virginia Beach.

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 Virginia Beach 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: Norfolk International Airport (ORF)

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: 38 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an actual flight from BNA connecting through BWI and arriving at ORF flying on Southwest Airlines. We can figure out how long it would take to fly including take-off and landing, time to taxi on the runways, and an average layover time of about 2 hours.

Initial flight time: 1 hour, 36 minutes

Connecting airport: Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)

Connection flight time: 48 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Nashville to Virginia Beach including time spent getting to and from the airports, roughly 2 hours at the departure airport for TSA security lines and waiting at the gate, plus the connecting flight with a 2-hour layover.

Total travel time: 7 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 Virginia Beach 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!

How far is Tennessee from VA by car?

The total driving distance from Tennessee to Virginia is 599 miles or 964 kilometers. Your trip begins in the state of Tennessee.

How long is a car ride from Virginia to Tennessee?

How long is the drive from Virginia to Tennessee? The total driving time is 8 hours, 56 minutes.

How far is Virginia Beach from Knoxville TN?

The distance between Virginia Beach and Knoxville is 542 miles. The average travel time is around 9 hours.

How long is it from Virginia Beach to Tennessee?

How long is the drive from Virginia Beach, VA to Nashville, TN? The total driving time is 10 hours, 44 minutes. Your trip begins in Virginia Beach, Virginia.