Direct Flights from Orlando to Birmingham
Birmingham · Alabama
Nonstop service from MCO to BHM on Southwest. 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, Orlando among them.
How long to go to Birmingham for, from Orlando
1h 25m in the air, 479 miles: short enough that a single night in Birmingham is worth it, and a day trip is not absurd.
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 Orlando
9° cooler than Orlando on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Birmingham 55°F · Orlando 72°F · 17° colder
- April
- Birmingham 75°F · Orlando 84°F · 8° colder
- July
- Birmingham 91°F · Orlando 92°F · much the same
- October
- Birmingham 76°F · Orlando 85°F · 9° colder
Birmingham also swings harder through the year than Orlando does — 37° between its coldest and warmest months against 20°.
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 Orlando to Birmingham?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Orlando (MCO) to Birmingham (BHM) on Southwest.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Orlando to Birmingham?
- Southwest flies nonstop between Orlando (MCO) and Birmingham (BHM).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Orlando to Birmingham?
- There are about 2 nonstop departures per day (roughly 14 per week) from Orlando to Birmingham.
- How far is Birmingham from Orlando?
- Birmingham is about 479 miles from Orlando 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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