Moving from Minneapolis to Phoenix: 2026 Cost & Time

Minneapolis to Phoenix is a classic snowbird lane, heaviest September–November ahead of the northern winter. Book outside that window if you can, demand, and price, drop sharply once the seasonal rush passes.

Cost by home size

What affects your Minneapolis → Phoenix cost

• Over long distances like Minneapolis to Phoenix (1,795 mi), the per-mile rate steps down, and inventory size becomes the dominant cost driver.
• A mid-month, mid-week date typically beats an end-of-month weekend on this lane, especially in the May–September peak.
• Your exact inventory is what shifts a range into a firm quote, which is why we show a range and the mover confirms it after a walkthrough.

Where the money goes on this move

Movers do not price this lane as one number. They price handling — the crew hours at both ends — and they price the 1,795 miles, and the ratio between the two is what makes one household's quote look nothing like another's. For a 2-bedroom household, transport is about 77% of the pre-adjustment total here, and 74% at five bedrooms.

Because the mileage bands step down, the effective rate depends entirely on how far you are going. For this distance a 2-bedroom load averages about $1.87 a mile, and a five-bedroom load pays the same rate on a bigger truck — which is why transport is 74% of that bill rather than 77%. This route's final mile falls in the over 1,500 mi band.

Crew rates at each end of this move

The carrier bills this move on weight and distance, but the people carrying your sofa are hired in two different labor markets, and those markets do not cost the same. These are the local rates we publish for Minneapolis and Phoenix.

Minneapolis is the more expensive labor market of the two, at $192 an hour for a 3-mover crew against $180 in Phoenix — a $12 an hour gap that would matter a great deal if this were a local move at that end, and matters much less on a tariff-priced interstate job.

Rates are only half of it. What the buildings make a crew do is the other half, and it is specific to each end. Minneapolis: The Twin Cities' older housing has full basements and enclosed porches with tight turns, and winter adds genuine time: crews lay floor protection, clear ice, and work shorter outdoor stretches on a January job.

Phoenix: Valley housing is overwhelmingly single-story with a garage and a driveway, the fastest configuration a crew can work. The friction here is heat: summer jobs start before sunrise, crews rotate more often, and the clock stretches even on an easy load.

What changes this number

Four decisions move this bill more than anything else, priced here in dollars against the 2-bedroom benchmark for this lane rather than as percentages. Two of them are entirely yours.

Peak season and an end-of-month date compound, so a late-July pickup carries both and lands roughly $1,012 over the off-peak baseline. It is the largest figure on this page you can change for free.

How this lane prices against its neighbours

We publish 10 other corridors that share an end with this one. Ranked by price rather than by mileage, because that is the decision most people are actually making.

Estimates, not quotes: every figure is computed from one published model at $62 per mover per hour plus tiered mileage, and none is attributed to a named company. See the method.