Direct Flights from Tampa to Nashville
Nashville · Tennessee
Nonstop service from TPA to BNA on American, Southwest. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
98 cities have a nonstop to Nashville, Tampa among them.
How long to go to Nashville for, from Tampa
1h 45m in the air, 613 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Nashville. Two nights works.
With roughly 7 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 Nashville
Nashville is the capital of the American state of Tennessee. With 716,000 residents in 2022, it is the state's largest city. Nashville is sometimes called the "Country Music Capital of the World" or more often "Music City, USA"; however, Nashville has done much to escape its country music image and become a regional center of culture and commerce. In fact, Dell, Nissan, and Amazon have all moved some operations to or near the city. The music is various; major rap artists and rock bands claim Nashville as their hometown, and the city is also the epicenter of the contemporary Christian music industry. Nashville has been the home of the world-famous Grand Ole Opry since 1925. Nashville also has a great bar scene. If you like to drink, you can go "Honky-tonking," also known as bar-hopping. This is the act of visiting and drinking at multiple bars in one evening or day.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Nashville
- Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
- The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American country music.
- The Parthenon in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens, Greece.
- The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is a zoological garden and historic family farm located 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Downtown Nashville.
- Fort Negley was a fortification built by Union troops after the capture of Nashville, Tennessee during the American Civil War, located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the city center.
- Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, commonly known as Bicentennial Mall, is a linear park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
- Cheekwood is a 55-acre (22 ha) historic estate on the western edge of Nashville, Tennessee that houses the Cheekwood Estate & Gardens.
- The Frist Art Museum, formerly known as the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, is an art exhibition hall in Nashville, Tennessee, housed in the city's historic U.S.
- Opryland USA was a theme park in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The 120-acre (49 ha) park was located between the Cumberland River and Briley Parkway.
- The Cathedral of the Incarnation, located at 2015 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States, is the cathedral seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville.
- Centennial Park is a large urban park located approximately two miles west of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States, across West End Avenue from the campus of Vanderbilt University.
- Lane Motor Museum is an automobile museum in Nashville, Tennessee holding a collection of over 500 mostly European automobiles, with 150 vehicles displayed on any given day.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Nashville weather, compared with Tampa
12° cooler than Tampa on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Nashville 48°F · Tampa 71°F · 22° colder
- April
- Nashville 72°F · Tampa 82°F · 11° colder
- July
- Nashville 90°F · Tampa 90°F · much the same
- October
- Nashville 73°F · Tampa 85°F · 12° colder
Nashville also swings harder through the year than Tampa does — 42° 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 Nashville
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Nashville is March–May and October–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 60–80°F.
- How long to stay
- Nashville rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Vanderbilt University, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and Parthenon (Nashville) and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Tampa to Nashville?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Tampa (TPA) to Nashville (BNA) on American, Southwest.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Tampa to Nashville?
- American, Southwest fly nonstop between Tampa (TPA) and Nashville (BNA).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Tampa to Nashville?
- There are about 7 nonstop departures per day (roughly 49 per week) from Tampa to Nashville.
- How far is Nashville from Tampa?
- Nashville is about 613 miles from Tampa by air.
- What is there to do in Nashville?
- Popular things to do include Vanderbilt University, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Parthenon (Nashville), Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, and more.
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