How many hours is it from Indiana to Dallas?

The driving time from Indianapolis, Indiana to Dallas, Texas is:

13 hours, 13 minutes

Average driving speed: 68.4 mph
Kilometers per hour: 110.1 km/h
This is based on typical traffic conditions for this route.

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Map of driving directions from Indianapolis, IN to Dallas, TX

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How long is the drive from Indianapolis, IN to Dallas, TX? The total driving time is 13 hours, 13 minutes.

Your trip begins in Indianapolis, Indiana. It ends in Dallas, Texas.

If you're planning a road trip, you might be interested in seeing the total driving distance from Indianapolis, IN to Dallas, TX.

You can also calculate the cost to drive from Indianapolis, IN to Dallas, TX 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 Indianapolis, IN and Dallas, TX.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the flight time from Indianapolis, IN to Dallas, TX.

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The driving time from Indiana (IN) to Dallas, Texas is:

13 hours, 16 minutes

Average driving speed: 68.5 mph
Kilometers per hour: 110.2 km/h
This is based on typical traffic conditions for this route.

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Map of driving directions from Indiana to Dallas, TX

View a map with driving directions using your preferred map provider: Google Maps, Bing Maps, or MapQuest.

More trip calculations

How long is the drive from Indiana to Dallas, TX? The total driving time is 13 hours, 16 minutes.

Your trip begins in the state of Indiana. It ends in Dallas, Texas.

If you're planning a road trip, you might be interested in seeing the total driving distance from Indiana to Dallas, TX.

You can also calculate the cost to drive from Indiana to Dallas, TX 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 Indiana and Dallas, TX.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the flight time from Indiana to Dallas, TX.

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Driving non-stop from Indianapolis to Dallas

How far is Dallas from Indianapolis? 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: 905 miles or 1456 km

Driving time: 13 hours, 13 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 Indianapolis to Dallas

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Indianapolis, Indiana and Dallas, Texas. 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: 764 miles or 1229 km

Flight time: 1 hour, 54 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 141 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 1/6th 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.

Indianapolis to Dallas road trip

Realistically, you're not going to want to drive without stopping all the way from Indianapolis to Dallas, especially if you're the main driver. So let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Dallas, 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: 17 hours on the road with 2 overnights

Itinerary

Start in Indianapolis.

Drive for about 1.5 hours, then stop in Terre Haute (Indiana) and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 2.5 hours then stop in Mount Vernon (Illinois) and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 2 hours then stop in Cape Girardeau. Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 1.5 hours, then stop in Kennett and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 2.5 hours then stop in Tunica and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 2.5 hours then stop in Little Rock. Stay overnight.

The next day, drive for about 2.5 hours, then stop in Texarkana (Texas) and stay for about 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 3 hours and arrive in Dallas.

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:

Indianapolis to Dallas 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: Indianapolis International Airport (IND)

Arrival airport: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)

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: 24 minutes

Getting to your destination: 48 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from IND to DFW 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, 15 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Indianapolis to Dallas 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: 5 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 Dallas to Indianapolis, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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

How many hours is it from Dallas to Indiana?

How long is the drive from Dallas, TX to Indiana? The total driving time is 13 hours, 16 minutes. Your trip begins in Dallas, Texas.

How long is from Indiana to Dallas Texas?

The distance between Indianapolis and Dallas is 768 miles. The road distance is 875.5 miles.

How many hours is Indiana from Texas?

Yes, the driving distance between Texas to Indiana is 1038 miles. It takes approximately 17h 42m to drive from Texas to Indiana.

How far is Dallas from Indiana by plane?

Distance between Dallas, TX (DFW) and Indianapolis, IN (IND) Flight distance from Dallas to Indianapolis (Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport – Indianapolis International Airport) is 761 miles / 1225 kilometers / 661 nautical miles. Estimated flight time is 1 hour 56 minutes.