Direct Flights from Charlotte to Charlottesville
Charlottesville · Virginia
Nonstop service from CLT to CHO on American. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
Only 5 cities have a nonstop to Charlottesville, so this is a route worth knowing about — most travelers connect to get there.
How long to go to Charlottesville for, from Charlotte
1h in the air, 245 miles: short enough that a single night in Charlottesville is worth it, and a day trip is not absurd.
With roughly 7 departures a day, you are not tied to one flight: if a meeting overruns or the weather turns, there is another one behind it.
About Charlottesville

Charlottesville, in central Virginia, is a lovely university town of about 40,000 with lots to offer. Charlottesville is a town steeped in history and culture. Charlottesville is a major cultural center for central Virginia, and features more fine dining, shopping, and entertainment than one might expect for a town of its size. Ensconced in beautiful Albemarle County, Charlottesville is also surrounded by vineyards and horse country.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Charlottesville
- Shenandoah National Park is a national park of the United States that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.
- Skyline Drive is a 105-mile (169 km) National Parkway that runs the entire length of the National Park Service's Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, generally along the ridge of the mountain…
- The Robert E. Lee Monument was an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E.
- Market Street Park, known as Lee Park until 2017, and as Emancipation Park from June 2017 to July 2018, is a public park in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
- The Fralin Museum of Art is an art museum at the University of Virginia. Before 2012, it was known as the University of Virginia Art Museum. It occupies the historic Thomas H.
- Grand Caverns, formerly known as Weyer's Cave, is located in the central Shenandoah Valley in the town of Grottoes, Virginia, United States.
- The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia houses one of the finest Indigenous Australian art collections in the world, rivaling many of the collections held in Australia.
- Bear Creek Lake State Park is a 326-acre (132 ha) state park located in Cumberland, Virginia, United States.
- The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers is a memorial in honor of those enslaved African Americans who helped build and worked at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia is the biggest open-air museum in the Shenandoah Valley.
- Lake Anna State Park is a state park located in Spotsylvania County in Virginia. Initially, the site of the Goodwin Gold Mine – gold was first discovered at the site in 1829 – the land later played host to Lake Anna, a r…
- The Our Lady of the Angels Monastery is a 507 acres (205 ha) Trappistine monastery near Crozet, Virginia, which sits in a small valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Route 64. They are cloistered from the public.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Charlottesville weather, compared with Charlotte
5° cooler than Charlotte on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Charlottesville 46°F · Charlotte 52°F · 7° colder
- April
- Charlottesville 69°F · Charlotte 73°F · 4° colder
- July
- Charlottesville 88°F · Charlotte 90°F · 2° colder
- October
- Charlottesville 69°F · Charlotte 73°F · 4° colder
Daily highs averaged from Meteostat station records (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Charlottesville
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Charlottesville is April–May and September–October, when daytime highs are a comfortable 69–79°F.
- How long to stay
- Charlottesville rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Shenandoah National Park, Skyline Drive, and Robert E. Lee Monument (Charlottesville, Virginia) and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Charlotte to Charlottesville?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Charlotte (CLT) to Charlottesville (CHO) on American.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Charlotte to Charlottesville?
- American flies nonstop between Charlotte (CLT) and Charlottesville (CHO).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Charlotte to Charlottesville?
- There are about 7 nonstop departures per day (roughly 49 per week) from Charlotte to Charlottesville.
- How far is Charlottesville from Charlotte?
- Charlottesville is about 245 miles from Charlotte by air.
- What is there to do in Charlottesville?
- Popular things to do include Shenandoah National Park, Skyline Drive, Robert E. Lee Monument (Charlottesville, Virginia), Market Street Park, and more.
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