Getting from ATL to where you are going
How to get from Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Downtown Atlanta, Buckhead, Midtown, Georgia Aquarium and downtown sights and more, every way compared.
More in our guide: Your first day in Atlanta after a long flight: MARTA downtown and what's near the stops.
Each page compares the ways to reach one place from Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: the time, the cost, and the first and last departure from the airport, from published timetables, fares and the airport's own transport records. Where a source did not publish a number, the page says so instead of guessing.
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Take MARTA. It costs $2.50 and reaches Five Points in about 16 minutes (MARTA's average for the station; the Gold line timetable gives 17). A taxi is a flat $37.50 for one rider and UberX averages $35.
Buckhead has its own station on MARTA's Red Line, so the ride is direct for $2.50 while Red trains are leaving Airport Station. On weekday nights you change at Lindbergh Center, or you take a car.
Midtown is one train from the Domestic Terminal with no change. The Red and Gold lines both go there for $2.50; pick North Avenue, Midtown or Arts Center by what is on your list.
Get off at Peachtree Center for the Georgia Aquarium. The Red and Gold lines both stop there, so you do not change trains, and the fare is $2.50. For the arenas and the stadium, change at Five Points.
Georgia Tech is a direct MARTA ride on the Red or Gold line for $2.50. Discover Atlanta lists the campus under two stations, North Avenue and Midtown, back to back on both lines.
It is one MARTA change from the Domestic Terminal to the stadium. Ride Red or Gold to Five Points, change to a Blue or Green train, and get off at SEC District or Vine City. You pay $2.50 once.
Truist Park is 10 miles northwest of downtown, in Cobb County. No airport page names it as a destination, so no way here has an airport fare: rideshare is priced in the app, and MARTA takes a train, a bus and a change.
Decatur is a two-train trip. Ride the Red or Gold line from the airport to Five Points, change to the Blue Line toward Indian Creek, and get off at Decatur. The fare is $2.50 and MARTA lists 29 minutes.
Greyhound lists an Atlanta Airport stop on its Atlanta to Athens route, with a fastest trip of 1 hour 25 minutes and fares from $15.48. Neither ATL nor the bus pages publish a driving time.
Rent a car at the 24-hour Rental Car Center or take a bus: Greyhound and FlixBus both print a minimum trip of 3 hours 10 minutes and fares from $39.98. ATL publishes no drive time or route to Savannah.
For Dragon Con, MARTA is the cheapest of the three ways downtown at $2.50. A ride puts you at the hotel door if you are hauling costume cases, and it skips the crowded train on parade morning.