Direct Flights from Chicago to Birmingham
Birmingham · Alabama
Nonstop service from ORD and MDW to BHM on American, Southwest, 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 Birmingham. Fares differ by airport — each row opens that exact search on Kayak.
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- Find flights ↗ORDBHMChicago O'Hare International
- Find flights ↗MDWBHMChicago Midway International
How rare is this nonstop?
16 cities have a nonstop to Birmingham, Chicago among them.
How long to go to Birmingham for, from Chicago
1h 40m in the air, 585 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Birmingham. Two nights works.
With roughly 6 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 Birmingham
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama, and its cultural and economic nucleus. While it's best remembered as the site of protest, bombings, and other racial tumult during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, visitors to the Birmingham of today will find a pleasant green city of ridges, valleys, attractive views, and friendly, hospitable people.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Birmingham
- The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. Its collection includes more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing various cultures, including Asian, Europ…
- The Cathedral of Saint Paul — informally known as Saint Paul's Cathedral — is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States.
- The Birmingham Zoo is a zoological park that opened in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
- Rickwood Caverns State Park is a public recreation area and natural history preserve located 7 miles (11 km) north of Warrior, Alabama.
- Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. It operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971.
- The Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument is a United States National Monument in Birmingham, Alabama established in 2017 to preserve and commemorate the work of the 1963 Birmingham campaign, its Children's Crusade,…
- Alabama Adventure & Splash Adventure is a water park and amusement park in Bessemer, Alabama.
- Majestic Caverns is a cave and tourist attraction located in Childersburg, Talladega County, Alabama. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is touted as "Alabama's Big Cave".
- The Birmingham Botanical Gardens is 67.5-acre (27.3 ha) of botanical gardens located adjacent to Lane Park at the southern foot of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
- Oak Mountain State Park is a public recreation area located approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of Birmingham in the northeast quadrant of the city of Pelham, Alabama, United States.
- The Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama, is the see church of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.
- The Southern Museum of Flight is a civilian aviation museum Birmingham, Alabama. The facility features nearly 100 aircraft, as well as engines, models, artifacts, photographs, and paintings.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Birmingham weather, compared with Chicago
15° warmer than Chicago on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Birmingham 55°F · Chicago 31°F · 23° warmer
- April
- Birmingham 75°F · Chicago 59°F · 16° warmer
- July
- Birmingham 91°F · Chicago 84°F · 7° warmer
- October
- Birmingham 76°F · Chicago 62°F · 14° warmer
Birmingham is the steadier of the two, moving 37° 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 each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Birmingham
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Birmingham is March–May and October–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 65–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Birmingham rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Birmingham Museum of Art, Cathedral of Saint Paul (Alabama), and Birmingham Zoo and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Chicago to Birmingham?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Chicago (ORD, MDW) to Birmingham (BHM) on American, Southwest, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Chicago to Birmingham?
- American, Southwest, United fly nonstop between Chicago (ORD, MDW) and Birmingham (BHM).
- Which Chicago airport has nonstop flights to Birmingham?
- You can leave from 2 Chicago airports: ORD (Chicago O'Hare International) on American, United; MDW (Chicago Midway International) on Southwest.
- How many nonstop flights are there from Chicago to Birmingham?
- There are about 6 nonstop departures per day (roughly 42 per week) from Chicago to Birmingham.
- How far is Birmingham from Chicago?
- Birmingham is about 585 miles from Chicago by air.
- What is there to do in Birmingham?
- Popular things to do include Birmingham Museum of Art, Cathedral of Saint Paul (Alabama), Birmingham Zoo, Rickwood Caverns State Park, and more.
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