Direct Flights from Detroit to Birmingham
Birmingham · Alabama
Nonstop service from DTW to BHM on Delta. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
16 cities have a nonstop to Birmingham, Detroit among them.
How long to go to Birmingham for, from Detroit
1h 45m in the air, 626 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Birmingham. Two nights works.
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 Detroit
15° warmer than Detroit on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Birmingham 55°F · Detroit 33°F · 22° warmer
- April
- Birmingham 75°F · Detroit 59°F · 16° warmer
- July
- Birmingham 91°F · Detroit 84°F · 7° warmer
- October
- Birmingham 76°F · Detroit 62°F · 14° warmer
Birmingham is the steadier of the two, moving 37° between its coldest and warmest months where Detroit moves 51°.
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 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 Detroit to Birmingham?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Detroit (DTW) to Birmingham (BHM) on Delta.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Detroit to Birmingham?
- Delta flies nonstop between Detroit (DTW) and Birmingham (BHM).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Detroit to Birmingham?
- There are about 2 nonstop departures per day (roughly 14 per week) from Detroit to Birmingham.
- How far is Birmingham from Detroit?
- Birmingham is about 626 miles from Detroit 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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