Resort city in Bay County, Florida, United States

City Beach

Panama City Beach is a resort city in the Florida Panhandle, and principal city of the Panama City metropolitan area.

Plan a trip to City Beach→From Pensacola

Every way there

Pensacola → City Beach
37 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · $3.5–5
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Orlando → City Beach
Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Birmingham → City Beach
14596 km · quickest by air, 25h 58m · £1,760–2,720
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around City Beach, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What City Beach has

YScheduled flightsPensacola (PNS), 128 km
FTrains and coaches34 feeds listed in the Mobility Database, not compiled yet (Translink Magnetic Island, TransLink Maryborough-Hervey Bay, TransLink North Stradbroke Island)
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Dothan, 119 km.

30.237°, -85.878°

Being located on the Emerald Coast area of Florida, it is a popular vacation destination. Panama City Beach had a population of 18,094 at the 2020 census, up from 12,018 in 2010. Panama City Beach's slogan is "the World's Most Beautiful Beaches" due to the unique, sugar-white, sandy beaches of the Florida Panhandle.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.