Direct Flights from New Orleans to Miami
Miami · Florida
Nonstop service from MSY to MIA on American. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
83 cities have a nonstop to Miami, New Orleans among them.
How long to go to Miami for, from New Orleans
1h 50m in the air, 674 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Miami. 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 Miami
Miami is a major city in the southeastern United States and the second most populous city in Florida. The Greater Miami metropolitan area is the largest in the state with an estimated population just under 6.1 million (2021), which makes it the 9th most populous metro area in the United States.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Miami
- Biscayne National Park is a national park of the United States located south of Miami, Florida, in Miami-Dade County. The park preserves Biscayne Bay and its offshore barrier reefs.
- The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day…
- The Miami Seaquarium was a 38-acre (15 ha) oceanarium located on the island of Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida, located near downtown Miami.
- Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Maurice A. Ferré Park in Downtown Miami, Florida.
- The Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens, also known as Zoo Miami, is a zoological park and garden in Miami and is the largest zoo in Florida.
- Butterfly World is located in Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek, Florida. It opened in 1988, and it is the largest butterfly park in the world, and the first park of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
- Bayfront Park is a 32-acre (13 ha) public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay.
- The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is a Holocaust memorial at 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, in Miami Beach, Florida.
- Haulover Park is a 177-acre (72 ha) urban park owned and operated by Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation & Open Spaces Department, located in metropolitan Miami, just north of Bal Harbour, Florida.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is a collecting museum located in North Miami, Florida.
- The Cathedral of Saint Mary is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami. The cathedral is named for Mary, mother of Jesus, and is located at 7525 N.W.
- Maurice A. Ferré Park is a 30-acre (12 ha) public, urban park in downtown Miami, Florida. The park opened in 1976 on the site of several slips served by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Miami weather, compared with New Orleans
6° warmer than New Orleans on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Miami 77°F · New Orleans 63°F · 14° warmer
- April
- Miami 84°F · New Orleans 79°F · 5° warmer
- July
- Miami 91°F · New Orleans 91°F · much the same
- October
- Miami 86°F · New Orleans 81°F · 5° warmer
Miami is the steadier of the two, moving 14° between its coldest and warmest months where New Orleans moves 29°.
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 Miami
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Miami is November–March, when daytime highs are a comfortable 77–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Miami rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Biscayne National Park, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, and Miami Seaquarium and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from New Orleans to Miami?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from New Orleans (MSY) to Miami (MIA) on American.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from New Orleans to Miami?
- American flies nonstop between New Orleans (MSY) and Miami (MIA).
- How many nonstop flights are there from New Orleans to Miami?
- There are about 4 nonstop departures per day (roughly 28 per week) from New Orleans to Miami.
- How far is Miami from New Orleans?
- Miami is about 674 miles from New Orleans by air.
- What is there to do in Miami?
- Popular things to do include Biscayne National Park, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami Seaquarium, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and more.
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