Great-circle route FLL → IAH. Faint dots are other airports, for geographic context. Download this map — free to reuse with a link back to this page.
The flight time from Fort Lauderdale to Houston is approximately 2h 30m nonstop. The distance is 964 miles (1,551 km). There are about 12 nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale to Houston per day.
That is a great-circle estimate, not a scheduled block time. An airline's published time will differ by roughly 15 to 45 minutes depending on routing, winds and taxi.
| Route | Est. time | Distance | Frequency | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLL → IAH Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport to George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport |
2h 30m | 964 mi | 66/wk | Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, United Airlines |
| FLL → HOU Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport to William P Hobby Airport |
2h 29m | 956 mi | 19/wk | Southwest Airlines |
Frequencies come from our most recent schedule sample. Where a pairing shows “—” we track it as an operating nonstop but hold no schedule sample for it — we would rather show nothing than guess.
4 airlines fly nonstop from Fort Lauderdale to Houston, including Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines.
Recent scheduled departures on this route have used the Boeing 737, Boeing 737-800, Airbus A320, Airbus A320 NEO and 2 other types.
Aircraft assignments change by season and by time of day.
The distance from Fort Lauderdale to Houston is 964 miles, or 1,551 kilometres.
| Great-circle distance | 964 mi |
| Kilometres | 1,551 km |
| Nautical miles | 838 nmi |
Measured airport to airport. The actual track is longer — aircraft follow airways, avoid restricted airspace and route around weather.
Yes. 4 airlines fly it nonstop, with about 85 departures a week, across 2 airport pairings. The route is in our live nonstop dataset, last seeded 2026-07-07.
About 2h 30m in the air on the FLL–IAH nonstop. That is a great-circle estimate from the 964-mile distance, not a scheduled block time — an airline's published time will differ by roughly 15 to 45 minutes depending on routing, winds and taxi.
964 miles (1,551 km) great-circle between Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport.
Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines.
Recent scheduled departures have used the Boeing 737, Boeing 737-800, Airbus A320, Airbus A320 NEO. Assignments change by season and by time of day.
FLL to IAH, FLL to HOU. Flight times differ slightly between them because the airports are not in the same place.
