The driving distance from Columbus, Georgia to Atlanta, Georgia is:
107 miles / 172 km
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The total driving distance from Columbus, GA to Atlanta, GA is 107 miles or 172 kilometers.
Your trip begins in Columbus, Georgia. It ends in Atlanta, Georgia.
If you are planning a road trip, you might also want to calculate the total driving time from Columbus, GA to Atlanta, GA so you can see when you'll arrive at your destination.
You can also calculate the cost of driving from Columbus, GA to Atlanta, GA 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 Columbus, GA and Atlanta, GA.
Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Columbus, GA to Atlanta, GA.
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The distance from Columbus, Georgia to Atlanta, Georgia is:
107 miles / 172 km driving
95 miles / 153 km flying
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Distance from Columbus, GA to Atlanta, GA
The total driving distance from Columbus, GA to Atlanta, GA is 107 miles or 172 kilometers.
The total straight line flight distance from Columbus, GA to Atlanta, GA is 95 miles.
This is equivalent to 153 kilometers or 83 nautical miles.
Your trip begins in Columbus, Georgia. It ends in Atlanta, Georgia.
Your flight direction from Columbus, GA to Atlanta, GA is North (21 degrees from North).
The distance calculator helps you figure out how far it is to get from Columbus, GA to Atlanta, GA. 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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Distance calculator
Travelmath helps you find distances based on actual road trip directions, or the straight line flight distance. You can get the distance between cities, airports, states, countries, or zip codes to figure out the best route to travel to your destination. Compare the results to the straight line distance to determine whether it's better to drive or fly. The database uses the latitude and longitude of each location to calculate distance using the great circle distance formula. The calculation is done using the Vincenty algorithm and the WGS84 ellipsoid model of the Earth, which is the same one used by most GPS receivers. This gives you the flying distance "as the crow flies." Find your flight distances quickly to estimate the number of frequent flyer miles you'll accumulate. Or ask how far is it between cities to solve your homework problems. You can lookup U.S. cities, or expand your search to get the world distance for international trips. You can also print out pages with a travel map.
Driving non-stop from Columbus (Georgia) to Atlanta
How far is Atlanta from Columbus (Georgia)? Here's the quick answer if you drive this relatively short distance without making any stops.
Nonstop drive: 107 miles or 172 km
Driving time: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Even though you can drive this distance straight through, it might be more interesting to stop along the way. You can scroll down to calculate how many hours it would take if you drive with stops.
Flying non-stop from Columbus (Georgia) to Atlanta
Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Columbus, Georgia and Atlanta, Georgia. 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: 95 miles or 153 km
Flight time: 28 minutes
The straight line flight distance is 12 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 1/2th 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.
Columbus (Georgia) to Atlanta road trip
Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Atlanta, 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: 2.5 hours on the road
Itinerary
Start in Columbus (Georgia).
Drive for about 47 minutes, then stop in Pine Mountain and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 49 minutes then stop in Senoia and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 47 minutes then stop at Zoo Atlanta and stay for 1 hour.
Finally, drive for about 5 minutes and arrive in Atlanta.
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:
Columbus (Georgia) to Atlanta 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: Columbus Metropolitan Airport (CSG)
Arrival airport: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)
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: 14 minutes
Getting to your destination: 24 minutes
Now finally, let's look at an example flight from CSG to ATL 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 Columbus (Georgia) to Atlanta 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:
Plan a trip to Atlanta
Trippy has a ton of information that can help you plan your trip to Atlanta, Georgia. Start by reading the Trippy page on where to stay in Atlanta. If you're looking for a place to stay, you might want to check out W Atlanta - Midtown. A great place to eat might be The Varsity. Trippy members can suggest things to do in Atlanta like Georgia Aquarium. Check out some of the questions people have asked about Atlanta like Good Restaurants Unique to Atlanta?. Click the button below to explore Atlanta 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 Atlanta to Columbus (Georgia), or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.
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