BWI to TPA: Distance and Flight Time

How far is it from Baltimore to Tampa?

The great-circle distance between Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) and Tampa International Airport (TPA) is 1,358 km (844 mi, 733 nautical miles). That is the straight-line distance; a real flight is a little longer because of air-traffic routing.

How long is the flight from BWI to TPA?

A nonstop flight typically takes about 2h 10m. This is an estimate from the distance; actual block times depend on the aircraft, winds and the exact routing. TPA is roughly southwest of BWI.

How is the BWI to TPA route written in code?

The pair is written BWI-TPA in IATA codes and KBWI-KTPA in ICAO codes, the form used on a flight plan. Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is BWI (KBWI), Tampa International Airport is TPA (KTPA).

Both ICAO codes start with K, the prefix ICAO assigns to the contiguous United States, so this is a route inside one ICAO region. How ICAO prefixes are laid out.

TPA sits 120 ft (37 m) lower than BWI, which is a real difference in air density on takeoff.

Airlines flying BWI to TPA

2 airlines appear on this route in the open route dataset, 2 of them still listed as active. Each row gives the IATA code, the ICAO code and the radio callsign, which is what an air traffic controller hears:

Route and carrier data comes from the OpenFlights open dataset, regenerated here on 3 July 2026. It is a historical snapshot of scheduled connections, not a live schedule, and it includes codeshare listings, so some carriers shown may no longer operate the route or exist. How we build this · Data and sources.

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