Distance from Ville Platte, LA to Lake Charles, LA

Driving distance between Ville Platte, LA and Lake Charles, LA is 79.53 miles (or 127.99 kilometers). This guide provides essential information to help you plan effectively for this trip.

If you drove an average car with a fuel efficiency of about 25 miles per gallon (mpg), you would be using approximately 0.04 gallons of gas per mile, and the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.

Estimated travel time

Leaving from Ville Platte, LA you would reach Lake Charles, LA in about 1 hour 43 mins if you keep an average speed of 65 miles per hour, assuming you don’t make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.

Driving distance in miles

80 mi128 km

Gas


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CO2 emissions: kg

Emission estimated with the eco2 norme
(185 CO2 grams/mile)

This is a map overview of the best driving route from Ville Platte, LA to Lake Charles, LA in which you can see the origin and destination points marked with A (Ville Platte) and B (Lake Charles) respectively as well as blue line along the road route you can take. You can zoom in to see more details, including road numbers and even street names both in Ville Platte, LA and Lake Charles, LA as well as every other town you may pass by on your way.

Fuel consumption if you drive from Ville Platte, LA to Lake Charles, LA

To cover the 79.53 mi that separate Lake Charles from Ville Platte you are going to need between of fuel, considering you drive an average car (25 mpg) and , if you drive an SUV or a heavy car (20 mpg). If you drive a fuel efficient car (45 mpg), your consumption will only be .

Cost of driving from Ville Platte, LA to Lake Charles, LA

Depending on the fuel efficiency level of your car, driving from Ville Platte to Lake Charles will cost you between and . An average car would make the trip for . We calculate the route cost using real time average gas prices for the US and other costs such as tolls are not included in this calculation.

Note: This price is subject to change based on current gas rates.

Driving directions

To help you plan your trip from Ville Platte to Lake Charles, we offer a detailed map together with full, turn by turn, driving directions from Ville Platte, LA to Lake Charles, LA.

Flying or direct distance between Ville Platte, LA and Lake Charles, LA

The flying distance represent the straight distance from Ville Platte to Lake Charles, the length of an hypothetical flight trip between the geographic center of Ville Platte, LA and the geographic center of Lake Charles, LA. We also offer nearby airports to both Ville Platte to Lake Charles and a flight ticket price comparison form, in case you want to make that hypothetical flight real :).

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