How long is the drive from Phoenix to New Orleans?

The driving time from Phoenix, Arizona to New Orleans, Louisiana is:

21 hours, 41 minutes

Average driving speed: 70.1 mph
Kilometers per hour: 112.8 km/h
This is based on typical traffic conditions for this route.

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Map of driving directions from Phoenix, AZ to New Orleans, LA

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How long is the drive from Phoenix, AZ to New Orleans, LA? The total driving time is 21 hours, 41 minutes.

Your trip begins in Phoenix, Arizona. It ends in New Orleans, Louisiana.

If you're planning a road trip, you might be interested in seeing the total driving distance from Phoenix, AZ to New Orleans, LA.

You can also calculate the cost to drive from Phoenix, AZ to New Orleans, LA based on current local gas 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 Phoenix, AZ and New Orleans, LA.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the flight time from Phoenix, AZ to New Orleans, LA.

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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.

The driving time from New Orleans, Louisiana to Phoenix, Arizona is:

21 hours, 41 minutes

Average driving speed: 70.1 mph
Kilometers per hour: 112.8 km/h
This is based on typical traffic conditions for this route.

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Map of driving directions from New Orleans, LA to Phoenix, AZ

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How long is the drive from New Orleans, LA to Phoenix, AZ? The total driving time is 21 hours, 41 minutes.

Your trip begins in New Orleans, Louisiana. It ends in Phoenix, Arizona.

If you're planning a road trip, you might be interested in seeing the total driving distance from New Orleans, LA to Phoenix, AZ.

You can also calculate the cost to drive from New Orleans, LA to Phoenix, AZ based on current local gas 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 New Orleans, LA and Phoenix, AZ.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the flight time from New Orleans, LA to Phoenix, AZ.

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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 Phoenix to New Orleans

How far is New Orleans from Phoenix? 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: 1,520 miles or 2446 km

Driving time: 21 hours, 41 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 Phoenix to New Orleans

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Phoenix, Arizona and New Orleans, Louisiana. 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: 1,315 miles or 2117 km

Flight time: 2 hours, 38 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 205 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.

Phoenix to New Orleans road trip

Realistically, you're not going to want to drive without stopping all the way from Phoenix to New Orleans, especially if you're the main driver. So let's say you're actually planning a road trip to New Orleans, 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: 4 days of driving

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

Travel time: 23 hours on the road with 3 overnights

Itinerary

Start in Phoenix.

Drive for about 2 hours, then stop in Tucson and stay for about 1.5 hours. Next, drive for another 4 hours then stop in Las Cruces. Stay overnight.

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

The next day, drive for about 3.5 hours, then stop in Kerrville and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 4 hours then stop in Houston. Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 3.5 hours, then stop in Lafayette and stay for about 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 2.5 hours and arrive in New Orleans.

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:

Phoenix to New Orleans 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: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)

Arrival airport: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)

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: 11 minutes

Getting to your destination: 34 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from PHX to MSY 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, 56 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Phoenix to New Orleans 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:

Plan a trip to New Orleans

Trippy has a ton of information that can help you plan your trip to New Orleans, Louisiana. Start by reading the Trippy page on where to stay in New Orleans. If you're looking for a place to stay, you might want to check out Hotel Monteleone. A great place to eat might be Café du Monde. Trippy members can suggest things to do in New Orleans like Frenchmen Street. Check out some of the questions people have asked about New Orleans like Breakfast in New Orleans?. Click the button below to explore New Orleans in detail.

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 New Orleans to Phoenix, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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