Miles Between Cities: Distances and Drive Times

By the Miles Between Cities Editorial Team  ·  Last updated: October 2026

How far is it from one city to another — really? Miles Between Cities answers that question three ways for every pair it covers: the straight-line distance, calculated from U.S. Census Bureau coordinates; the driving distance, measured via OpenStreetMap routing where a measured route is published and clearly labelled as an estimate where it is not; and the drive time, presented as an estimate everywhere, because that is what every drive time honestly is. Keeping the three figures separate, labelled and sourced is the whole idea of this site. A single unexplained number can be out by a third and still look authoritative; three labelled numbers let you plan a move, a road trip or a delivery with your eyes open.

Start With a City

Each of our city hub pages collects every distance from that city in one table — straight-line miles, driving miles and drive time to all sixty-five other cities in the index, sorted from nearest to farthest, with measured routes and estimates labelled in every row. The hubs are the fastest way to answer questions like "what is within a day's drive of here?" or "which of these three cities is actually closest?" because the comparisons are already done, on one page, by one method. Pick a city to begin: the same method stands behind every figure you will meet from there, and every linked destination opens a full pair page with the comparison table, compass direction, time-zone notes and route detail for that specific journey.

• New York, NY
• Los Angeles, CA
• Chicago, IL
• Houston, TX
• Phoenix, AZ
• Philadelphia, PA
• San Antonio, TX
• San Diego, CA
• Dallas, TX
• Austin, TX
• Jacksonville, FL
• San Jose, CA
• Fort Worth, TX
• Columbus, OH
• Charlotte, NC
• San Francisco, CA
• Indianapolis, IN
• Seattle, WA
• Denver, CO
• Washington, DC
• Boston, MA
• El Paso, TX
• Las Vegas, NV
• Portland, OR
• Detroit, MI
• Memphis, TN
• Baltimore, MD
• Milwaukee, WI
• Albuquerque, NM
• Tucson, AZ
• Mesa, AZ
• Sacramento, CA
• Atlanta, GA
• Kansas City, MO
• Colorado Springs, CO
• Miami, FL
• Raleigh, NC
• Omaha, NE
• Long Beach, CA
• Virginia Beach, VA
• Oakland, CA
• Minneapolis, MN
• Tulsa, OK
• Tampa, FL
• Arlington, TX
• New Orleans, LA
• Wichita, KS
• Bakersfield, CA
• Cleveland, OH
• Aurora, CO
• Anaheim, CA
• Honolulu, HI
• Santa Ana, CA
• Riverside, CA
• Corpus Christi, TX
• Stockton, CA
• St. Paul, MN
• Cincinnati, OH
• Pittsburgh, PA
• Greensboro, NC
• Anchorage, AK
• St. Louis, MO
• Orlando, FL
• Salt Lake City, UT
• Nashville, TN
• Louisville, KY

Most Searched City Pairs

The pair pages are the heart of the site. Each one opens with the two headline distances side by side, then works through what they mean: how the straight line was calculated from the Census coordinates, how the road figure was measured or estimated, why the road runs longer than the line on that particular corridor, whether the clocks change between the two cities, and how much time to honestly allow once stops and real conditions are counted. The sixty most searched pairs are listed here; hundreds more are reachable from the city hubs, where every published pair is linked from both of its cities' pages.

• New York to Los Angeles — 2459 miles straight-line
• New York to Chicago — 718 miles straight-line
• New York to Houston — 1419 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Chicago — 1749 miles straight-line
• New York to Phoenix — 2141 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Houston — 1379 miles straight-line
• New York to Philadelphia — 77 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Phoenix — 364 miles straight-line
• Chicago to Houston — 937 miles straight-line
• New York to San Antonio — 1583 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Philadelphia — 2399 miles straight-line
• Chicago to Phoenix — 1445 miles straight-line
• New York to San Diego — 2427 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to San Antonio — 1208 miles straight-line
• Chicago to Philadelphia — 667 miles straight-line
• Houston to Phoenix — 1015 miles straight-line
• New York to Dallas — 1371 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to San Diego — 111 miles straight-line
• Chicago to San Antonio — 1048 miles straight-line
• Houston to Philadelphia — 1343 miles straight-line
• New York to Austin — 1512 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Dallas — 1249 miles straight-line
• Chicago to San Diego — 1724 miles straight-line
• Houston to San Antonio — 190 miles straight-line
• Phoenix to Philadelphia — 2077 miles straight-line
• New York to Jacksonville — 834 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Austin — 1233 miles straight-line
• Chicago to Dallas — 799 miles straight-line
• Houston to San Diego — 1298 miles straight-line
• Phoenix to San Antonio — 847 miles straight-line
• New York to San Jose — 2550 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Jacksonville — 2153 miles straight-line
• Chicago to Austin — 974 miles straight-line
• Houston to Dallas — 223 miles straight-line
• Phoenix to San Diego — 296 miles straight-line
• Philadelphia to San Antonio — 1508 miles straight-line
• New York to Fort Worth — 1401 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to San Jose — 296 miles straight-line
• Chicago to Jacksonville — 862 miles straight-line
• Houston to Austin — 146 miles straight-line
• Phoenix to Dallas — 887 miles straight-line
• Philadelphia to San Diego — 2365 miles straight-line
• New York to Columbus — 479 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Fort Worth — 1216 miles straight-line
• Chicago to San Jose — 1832 miles straight-line
• Houston to Jacksonville — 821 miles straight-line
• Phoenix to Austin — 870 miles straight-line
• Philadelphia to Dallas — 1298 miles straight-line
• San Antonio to San Diego — 1123 miles straight-line
• New York to Charlotte — 532 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Columbus — 1984 miles straight-line
• Chicago to Fort Worth — 820 miles straight-line
• Houston to San Jose — 1602 miles straight-line
• Phoenix to Jacksonville — 1791 miles straight-line
• Philadelphia to Austin — 1437 miles straight-line
• San Antonio to Dallas — 253 miles straight-line
• New York to San Francisco — 2602 miles straight-line
• Los Angeles to Charlotte — 2126 miles straight-line
• Chicago to Columbus — 277 miles straight-line
• Houston to Fort Worth — 237 miles straight-line

Learn How Distances Work

Our short guides explain the ideas behind the numbers in plain language — the difference between a straight line and a road, the formula that measures distance over a curved Earth, the circuity factor that turns a line into an honest estimate, and the reasons two drivers can take such different times over the same road miles. Readers planning a serious journey usually get the most from the guides on drive-time variation and long-drive planning; readers who simply like knowing how things are measured tend to start with the calculation guide.

• Straight-Line vs Driving Distance, Explained
• How We Calculate Distances Between Cities
• Why Drive Times Vary So Much
• Circuity: How Road-Distance Estimates Work
• Time Zones and the Long Drive
• Planning a Long Drive Between Cities

How Every Figure Is Made

Coordinates: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer files. Straight-line distance: the haversine formula between the two cities' Gazetteer coordinates. Driving distance: OpenStreetMap routing via OSRM for measured pairs, or the documented estimate — straight line times 1.25 — for the rest. Drive time: the routing engine's duration for measured routes, or estimated road miles at an assumed 50 miles per hour. That recipe never changes from page to page, it is written out in full on the methodology page, and the October 2026 retrieval date is printed on every page alongside the figures. If a number on this site ever disagrees with that recipe, the number is wrong and we want to know — corrections go through the contact page and are checked against the sources, not against our pride.

Sources: Coordinates: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer files; driving data: OpenStreetMap/OSRM — retrieved October 2026.