How many miles between Omaha and Kansas City?

The driving distance from Omaha, Nebraska to Kansas City, Missouri is:

185 miles / 298 km

Map of driving directions from Omaha, NE to Kansas City, MO

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More trip calculations

The total driving distance from Omaha, NE to Kansas City, MO is 185 miles or 298 kilometers.

Your trip begins in Omaha, Nebraska. It ends in Kansas City, Missouri.

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

You can also calculate the cost of driving from Omaha, NE to Kansas City, MO 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 Omaha, NE and Kansas City, MO.

Planning to fly a plane instead? You might be more interested in calculating the straight line distance to fly from Omaha, NE to Kansas City, MO.

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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.

Driving non-stop from Omaha to Kansas City (Kansas)

How far is Kansas City (Kansas) from Omaha? Here's the quick answer if you drive this relatively short distance without making any stops.

Nonstop drive: 182 miles or 293 km

Driving time: 2 hours, 43 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 Omaha to Kansas City (Kansas)

Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in the fastest possible straight line between Omaha, Nebraska and Kansas City, Kansas. 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: 163 miles or 263 km

Flight time: 50 minutes

The straight line flight distance is 19 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 1/3th 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.

Omaha to Kansas City (Kansas) road trip

Let's say you're actually planning a road trip to Kansas City (Kansas), 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: 3.5 hours on the road

Itinerary

Start in Omaha.

Drive for about 40 minutes, then stop in Percival and stay for about 1 hour. Next, drive for another 34 minutes then stop in Rock Port and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 28 minutes then stop in Mound City and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 50 minutes then stop in Helena and stay for 1 hour. Drive for 1 hour then stop in North Kansas City and stay for 1 hour.

Finally, drive for about 7 minutes and arrive in Kansas City (Kansas).

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:

Omaha to Kansas City (Kansas) 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: Eppley Airfield (OMA)

Arrival airport: Kansas City International Airport (MCI)

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: 40 minutes

Now finally, let's look at an example flight from OMA to MCI 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: 50 minutes

So now we can finally get an idea of the total travel time from Omaha to Kansas City (Kansas) 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:

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 Kansas City (Kansas) to Omaha, or go to the main page to calculate the distance between cities.

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