An inbred corn variety, designated LH311, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn variety LH311, to the plants of inbred corn variety LH311 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred variety LH311 with itself or another corn variety. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn varieties derived from the inbred LH311.