Great-circle route IAH → FLL. 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 Houston to Fort Lauderdale is approximately 2h 30m nonstop. The distance is 964 miles (1,551 km). There are about 12 nonstop flights from Houston to Fort Lauderdale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IAH → FLL George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport to Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport |
2h 30m | 964 mi | 66/wk | Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, United Airlines |
| HOU → FLL William P Hobby Airport to Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International 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 Houston to Fort Lauderdale, including Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines.
Recent scheduled departures on this route have used the Airbus A320, Boeing 737-900, Airbus A320 NEO, Boeing 737 and 2 other types.
Aircraft assignments change by season and by time of day.
The distance from Houston to Fort Lauderdale 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 IAH–FLL 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 George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport and Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport.
Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines.
Recent scheduled departures have used the Airbus A320, Boeing 737-900, Airbus A320 NEO, Boeing 737. Assignments change by season and by time of day.
IAH to FLL, HOU to FLL. Flight times differ slightly between them because the airports are not in the same place.
