How to get from Ipoh to Paka

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Cheapest: –
Distance: 261 km; as the crow flies
Departures today: 2; 3 ways, Mon 26 Oct

3 ways to travel

261 km apart. Times are the timetables for Mon 26 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.

best20 min quicker than flying and RM530 cheaper.

Data: Roads © OpenStreetMap contributors, routed by OSRM · Typical flight routes from OpenFlights (ODbL), a 2014 snapshot · Places from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · All credits and licences

Before you go

Borders, permits, official travel advice and disaster alerts for the places on this route, as their sources publish them. Entry rules are shown for a passport from Malaysia; the planner lets you pick yours.

Parts of Malaysia are advised against, not on this routeUK

Travel advice: UK FCDO (Open Government Licence v3.0).

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 Ipoh to Paka?

The fastest way is by car: about 6h 38m door to door. The straight-line distance is 261 km.

What is the cheapest way from Ipoh to Paka?

Drive is the cheapest, from RM95. That figure is an estimate from the operator's fare bands, not a live quote.

How long is the flight from Ipoh to Paka?

About 1h 2m in the air (PEN → SZB), about 7h door to door once you add the ride to the airport, check-in and the cab at the other end. Typical fares run RM510–880; live prices are on Flights70.

How far is Paka from Ipoh by road?

About 490 km, roughly 6h 38m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around RM95–130; tolls and parking are extra.

In Paka

Pacific typhoon in 1997

Typhoon Paka, named Rubing by PAGASA, was an extremely powerful and long-lived storm that devastated Guam and the Marshall Islands in December 1997, produced the second-highest accumulated cyclone energy—a metric used to measure the total energy generated by tropical cyclones—of any individual cyclone on record in the basin. One of the strongest Pacific typhoons ever recorded in December, Paka was the last tropical cyclone of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season and 1997 Pacific typhoon season and the last of a record eleven super typhoons that formed in 1997. Paka developed on 28 November from a trough well to the southwest of Hawaii. The storm tracked generally westward for much of its duration, and on 7 December it crossed into the western Pacific Ocean. Much of its track was characterized by fluctuations in intensity, and on 10 December the cyclone attained typhoon status as it crossed the Marshall Islands. On 16 December, Paka struck Guam and Rota with winds of 230 km/h (140 mph), and it strengthened further to reach peak winds on 18 December over open waters as the final super typhoon of the year. Subsequently, it underwent a steady weakening trend, and on 23 December, Paka dissipated.

The Paka guide

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