--- title: "Kirkuk to Arbil – 2 ways by car, taxi | Mixroutes" description: "Kirkuk to Arbil is 87 km. Fastest: undefined in 0 min. Cheapest: undefined from –. Real timetables, prices labelled live, quoted or estimated." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kirkuk-to-arbil" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kirkuk-to-arbil.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- # How to get from Kirkuk to Arbil [Plan it for your day](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kirkuk&to=Arbil) [Arbil to Kirkuk](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/arbil-to-kirkuk) **Fastest:** –\ \ **Cheapest:** –\ \ **Distance:** 87 km\ as the crow flies\ **Departures today:** 0\ 2 ways, Tue 27 Oct\ ## 2 ways to travel 87 km apart. Times are the timetables for Tue 27 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$170 cheaper than a cab and about as quick. - [**Drive** best 1h 26m$8–10 Estimated **Avoid** · Iraq 94 km · fuel only](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kirkuk&to=Arbil) - [**Taxi** 1h 26m$150–205 Estimated **Avoid** · Iraq one-way cab](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kirkuk&to=Arbil) 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) ## 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 Iraq; the planner lets you pick yours. - **Do not travel to Iraq** [US](https://travel.state.gov/content/tsg_aem/us/en/home/international-travel/travel-advisories/destination.irq.html) [UK](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iraq/warnings-and-insurance) Travel advice: UK FCDO (Open Government Licence v3.0), US State Department. ## 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 Kirkuk to Arbil? The fastest way is by car: about 1h 26m door to door. The straight-line distance is 87 km. What is the cheapest way from Kirkuk to Arbil? Drive is the cheapest, from $8. That figure is an estimate from the operator's fare bands, not a live quote. How far is Arbil from Kirkuk by road? About 94 km, roughly 1h 26m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around $8–10; tolls and parking are extra. ## In Arbil Capital and largest city of Kurdistan Region, Iraq Erbil, also called Hawler, is the capital and most populated city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the capital of the Erbil Governorate. Erbil is described as the region's cultural, economic, industrial, educational and medical hub. [The Arbil guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/arbil) Worth your time - Grand Mosque Erbil's historic central mosque, still open despite renovations on the Citadel. - Erbil Gem Museum 52R5+3H. - Erbil Marathon Sami Abdulrahman Park, info@erbilmarathon.krd. From Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA) [Hotels in Arbil 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/kirkuk-to-arbil, 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