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![Fort Lauderdale](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Skyline_of_Fort_Lauderdale%2C_Nov-15.jpg/3840px-Skyline_of_Fort_Lauderdale%2C_Nov-15.jpg)

# Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale is a coastal city located in the U.S.

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## Every way there

- Miami → Fort Lauderdale 39 km · quickest by road, 42 min · $3.5–5 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/miami-to-fort-lauderdale) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Miami&to=Fort+Lauderdale)
- West Palm Beach → Fort Lauderdale 67 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · $6–8 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/west-palm-beach-to-fort-lauderdale) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=West+Palm+Beach&to=Fort+Lauderdale)
- Fort Myers → Fort Lauderdale 178 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · $18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/fort-myers-to-fort-lauderdale) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Fort+Myers&to=Fort+Lauderdale)

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 Fort Lauderdale, 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 Fort Lauderdale has

- Y Scheduled flights Fort Lauderdale (FLL), 8 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries The Historic Downtowner Saloon, 3 km, Water Trolley; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

26.141°, -80.144°

state of Florida, 30 miles (48 km) north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the seat of government of and most populous city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in Florida. After Miami and Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale is the third-most populous city in the Miami metro area, which had a population of 6,166,488 in 2019.

How locals move

## Getting around Fort Lauderdale the local way

- Get in There are also some limited charter flights to and from Europe.
- Get in Charter companies such as Fort Lauderdale Air Charter, Monarch Air Group and Skymax offer access to a variety of planes for flights to and from this airport.
- Get in Additionally, Baleària Caribbean runs a regular ferry from Freeport, in the Bahamas.
- Get around Fort Lauderdale is America's yachting capital, and as such has numerous boat charter and rental companies.
- Get around Water Taxi also offers a free "Water Trolley" shuttle service (funded by the city) with stops between the Stranahan House and Esplanade Park (the span of Fort Lauderdale's "Riverwalk" along the New River).

From [Wikivoyage: Fort Lauderdale](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale%2C_Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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