Direct Flights from Tampa to Huntsville
Huntsville · Alabama
Nonstop service from TPA to HSV on Breeze. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
17 cities have a nonstop to Huntsville, Tampa among them.
How long to go to Huntsville for, from Tampa
1h 35m in the air, 524 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Huntsville. Two nights works.
The schedule narrows it further. This route does not fly daily, so assuming the return runs the same days, your trip is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 nights — or a full week. Worth checking before you book time off.
About Huntsville
Huntsville is in northern Alabama, about 20 miles from the border with Tennessee. The city is a center for missile defense and aerospace technologies, with companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman having major operations here. Cummings Research Park, the second largest research park in the country, is home to many of these companies.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Huntsville
- The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama is a museum operated by the government of Alabama, showcasing rockets, achievements, and artifacts of the U.S. space program.
- Cathedral Caverns State Park is a 493-acre (200 ha) public recreation area and natural history preserve in Kennamer Cove, Alabama, located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Grant and 7 miles (11 km) southeast o…
- Huntsville Museum of Art (HMA) is a museum located in Huntsville, Alabama. HMA sits in Big Spring Park within Downtown Huntsville, and serves as a magnet for cultural activities.
- The Huntsville Botanical Garden is a 118 acres (480,000 m2) botanical garden located at 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, Alabama, near the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. It is open year-round for a fee.
- Painted Bluff is a cliff overlooking the Tennessee River in Marshall County, Alabama that features over 130 individual prehistoric Native American pictographs and petroglyphs.
- Buck's Pocket State Park is a public recreation area located on Sand Mountain in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Alabama, two miles (3.2 km) north of the community of Grove Oak.
- Lake Guntersville State Park is a public recreation area located on the far north side of the city of Guntersville in Marshall County, Alabama.
- Monte Sano State Park is a public recreation area and mountaintop retreat encompassing 2,140 acres (870 ha) on the eastern portion of the top and slopes of Monte Sano Mountain on the east side of Huntsville, Alabama.
- Big Spring International Park is a large park located in downtown Huntsville, Alabama. The park was built around its namesake "Big Spring", the original water source that the city of Huntsville was built around.
- The North Alabama Railroad Museum, Inc. is a railroad museum in Huntsville, Alabama. The museum, incorporated in 1966, is an all volunteer organization.
- Space City USA was a planned theme park near Huntsville, Alabama. Located adjacent to Lady Ann Lake between Huntsville and Decatur, the $5 million project was planned starting in 1959 as "Time World".
- Burritt on the Mountain is an open-air museum in Huntsville, Alabama. The museum grounds on Round Top Mountain, a plateau connected to Monte Sano Mountain, were the estate of local physician William Burritt, who willed h…
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Huntsville weather, compared with Tampa
10° cooler than Tampa on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Huntsville 51°F · Tampa 71°F · 20° colder
- April
- Huntsville 74°F · Tampa 82°F · 9° colder
- July
- Huntsville 90°F · Tampa 90°F · much the same
- October
- Huntsville 75°F · Tampa 85°F · 10° colder
Huntsville also swings harder through the year than Tampa does — 39° 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 Huntsville
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Huntsville is March–May and October–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 63–81°F.
- How long to stay
- Huntsville rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Cathedral Caverns State Park, and Huntsville Museum of Art and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Tampa to Huntsville?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Tampa (TPA) to Huntsville (HSV) on Breeze.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Tampa to Huntsville?
- Breeze flies nonstop between Tampa (TPA) and Huntsville (HSV).
- How far is Huntsville from Tampa?
- Huntsville is about 524 miles from Tampa by air.
- How many days can I spend in Huntsville flying from Tampa?
- Because this route doesn't operate daily, your trip is effectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 nights — or a full week — assuming the return flies the same days as the outbound.
- What is there to do in Huntsville?
- Popular things to do include U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Cathedral Caverns State Park, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville Botanical Garden, and more.
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