Direct Flights from Chicago to Asheville
Asheville · North Carolina
Nonstop service from ORD and MDW to AVL on Allegiant, American, United. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
Which airports fly this route
Chicago has 2 airports with nonstop service to Asheville. Fares differ by airport — each row opens that exact search on Kayak.
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- Find flights ↗ORDAVLChicago O'Hare International
- Find flights ↗MDWAVLChicago Midway International
How rare is this nonstop?
22 cities have a nonstop to Asheville, Chicago among them.
How long to go to Asheville for, from Chicago
1h 35m in the air, 536 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Asheville. Two nights works.
With roughly 4 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 Asheville
The city of Asheville is a liberal, artsy community nestled between the Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Smoky Mountains in Western North Carolina. A popular tourist destination, this "Paris of the South," has one of the most impressive, comprehensive collections of Art Deco architecture in the United States. In 2011 Asheville was picked as one of the “10 Most Beautiful Places in America” by Good Morning America.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Asheville
- Black Mountain College (BMC) was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others.
- The Folk Art Center is a museum of Appalachian folk art and crafts located at milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina.
- Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, located at 81 Carl Sandburg Lane near Hendersonville in the village of Flat Rock, North Carolina, preserves Connemara, the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer Carl Sa…
- Caesars Head State Park is a park in northern Greenville County, South Carolina, that borders Transylvania County, North Carolina, and is reached via US 276.
- Mount Mitchell State Park is a 4,789-acre (1,938 ha) North Carolina state park in Yancey County, North Carolina in the United States.
- Chimney Rock State Park is a North Carolina state park in Chimney Rock, Rutherford County, North Carolina in the United States.
- The North Carolina Arboretum is an arboretum and botanical garden located within the Bent Creek Experimental Forest of the Pisgah National Forest at 20 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, southwest of Asheville, North Carolina ne…
- The Asheville Art Museum is a nonprofit visual art organization in Western North Carolina (WNC) and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
- The Western North Carolina Nature Center is a 42-acre (17 ha) zoological park in Western North Carolina operated by the City of Asheville.
- Asheville Botanical Garden, formerly known as the Botanical Gardens at Asheville, is an independent non-profit botanical garden located on 10 acres at 151 W. T. Weaver Boulevard in Asheville, North Carolina.
- Ghost Town Village is an abandoned Wild West-themed amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, United States whose status is currently, as of March 2023, the subject of an ongoing lawsuit.
- Andrews Geyser is a man-made fountain in Old Fort, North Carolina in McDowell County, currently in need of restoration.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Looking for things to do in Asheville? Explore Asheville is the official visitor guide.
Asheville weather, compared with Chicago
8° warmer than Chicago on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Asheville 48°F · Chicago 31°F · 17° warmer
- April
- Asheville 68°F · Chicago 59°F · 10° warmer
- July
- Asheville 84°F · Chicago 84°F · much the same
- October
- Asheville 69°F · Chicago 62°F · 6° warmer
Asheville is the steadier of the two, moving 36° between its coldest and warmest months where Chicago moves 53°.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at the nearest weather station to each city.
Planning a trip to Asheville
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Asheville is April–June and September–October, when daytime highs are a comfortable 68–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Asheville rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Black Mountain College, Folk Art Center, and Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Chicago to Asheville?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Chicago (ORD, MDW) to Asheville (AVL) on Allegiant, American, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Chicago to Asheville?
- Allegiant, American, United fly nonstop between Chicago (ORD, MDW) and Asheville (AVL).
- Which Chicago airport has nonstop flights to Asheville?
- You can leave from 2 Chicago airports: ORD (Chicago O'Hare International) on American, United; MDW (Chicago Midway International) on Allegiant.
- How many nonstop flights are there from Chicago to Asheville?
- There are about 4 nonstop departures per day (roughly 28 per week) from Chicago to Asheville.
- How far is Asheville from Chicago?
- Asheville is about 536 miles from Chicago by air.
- What is there to do in Asheville?
- Popular things to do include Black Mountain College, Folk Art Center, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, Caesars Head State Park, and more.
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