--- title: "Darwin to Alice Springs – 2 ways by car, taxi | Mixroutes" description: "Darwin to Alice Springs is 1290 km. Fastest: undefined in 0 min. Cheapest: undefined from –. Real timetables, prices labelled live, quoted or estimated." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/darwin-to-alice-springs" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/darwin-to-alice-springs.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- # How to get from Darwin to Alice Springs [Plan it for your day](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Darwin&to=Alice+Springs) [Alice Springs to Darwin](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/alice-springs-to-darwin) **Fastest:** –\ \ **Cheapest:** –\ \ **Distance:** 1290 km\ as the crow flies\ **Departures today:** 0\ 2 ways, Thu 29 Oct\ ## 2 ways to travel 1290 km apart. Times are the timetables for Thu 29 Oct, 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 A$2,800 cheaper than a cab and about as quick. - [**Drive** best 15h 58m A$180–240 Estimated 1492 km · fuel only](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Darwin&to=Alice+Springs) - [**Taxi** 15h 58m A$2,540–3,430 Estimated one-way cab](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Darwin&to=Alice+Springs) 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 Darwin to Alice Springs? The fastest way is by car: about 15h 58m door to door. The straight-line distance is 1290 km. What is the cheapest way from Darwin to Alice Springs? Drive is the cheapest, from A$180. That figure is an estimate from the operator's fare bands, not a live quote. How far is Alice Springs from Darwin by road? About 1492 km, roughly 15h 58m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around A$180–240; tolls and parking are extra. ## In Alice Springs Town in the Northern Territory, Australia Alice Springs is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement in the Northern Territory after Darwin and Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd, wife of the telegraph pioneer Charles Todd. The town is situated roughly in Australia's geographic centre, nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin. [The Alice Springs guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/alice-springs) Worth your time - Reptile Centre Examples of the local reptiles and one NT croc specially imported, on display by the guy the locals call when something with fangs is in the kitchen. - Alice Springs Desert Park 871 Larapinta Drive (B6) (10km west of town). - Olive Pink Botanical Garden Doesn't bloom much, but if you happen to get here after a rain, it's a really nice spot. - The Residency Built in 1927 as the residence of the Government Representative to Central Australia, the house was the centre of government and social activity right up to the early 1970s. From Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA) [Hotels in Alice Springs 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/darwin-to-alice-springs, 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