--- title: "Ames to Kansas City – 2 ways by car, taxi | Mixroutes" description: "Ames to Kansas City is 336 km. Fastest: undefined in 0 min. Cheapest: undefined from –. Real timetables, prices labelled live, quoted or estimated." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ames-to-kansas-city" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ames-to-kansas-city.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- # How to get from Ames to Kansas City [Plan it for your day](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ames&to=Kansas+City) [Kansas City to Ames](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kansas-city-to-ames) **Fastest:** –\ \ **Cheapest:** –\ \ **Distance:** 336 km\ as the crow flies\ **Departures today:** 0\ 2 ways, Sun 1 Nov\ ## 2 ways to travel 336 km apart. Times are the timetables for Sun 1 Nov, planned from 08:00; every price says whether it is live, the operator's fare or our estimate. We add nothing to any fare. best$660 cheaper than a cab and about as quick. - [**Drive** best 4h 24m$29–40 Estimated 365 km · fuel only](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ames&to=Kansas+City) - [**Taxi** 4h 24m$580–800 Estimated one-way cab](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ames&to=Kansas+City) Data: [Roads © OpenStreetMap contributors, routed by OSRM](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) · [Places from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · [All credits and licences](https://www.mixroutes.com/credits) ## Departures today Timetable data via Transitous and the operators' own GTFS feeds. Live delays arrive when an operator publishes a real-time feed. ## Questions people ask How long does it take to get from Ames to Kansas City? The fastest way is by car: about 4h 24m door to door. The straight-line distance is 336 km. What is the cheapest way from Ames to Kansas City? Drive is the cheapest, from $29. That figure is an estimate from the operator's fare bands, not a live quote. How far is Kansas City from Ames by road? About 365 km, roughly 4h 24m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around $29–40; tolls and parking are extra. ## In Kansas City City in Missouri, United States Kansas City, abbreviated KC or KCMO, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by both population and area. It is located on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River, within Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties. It is the 37th-most populous city in the United States and sixth-most populous city in the Midwest, with a population of 508,090 at the 2020 census. The Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line, is the 31st-most populous metropolitan area in the nation, at 2.25 million residents. [The Kansas City guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/kansas-city) [Hotels in Kansas City Compare prices on Hotels70](https://www.hotels70.com) ## More routes - [Kochi to Bengaluru](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-bengaluru) - [Kochi to Chennai](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-chennai) - [Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-thiruvananthapuram) - [Kochi to Munnar](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-munnar) - [Kochi to Alappuzha](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-alappuzha) - [Kochi to Kozhikode](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-kozhikode) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ames-to-kansas-city, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt