Cities near Essen, within 100 km and 300 km (straight line)
There are 208 cities and towns of 15,000 people or more within 100 km of Essen, Germany, in a straight line, and 1,027 cities and towns within 300 km, measured from the city centre. The largest within 100 km are Cologne (58 km south), Dortmund (32 km east-northeast) and Bochum (14 km east).
Within 100 km
208
cities and towns · straight line
Within 300 km
1,027
cities and towns · straight line
Nearest
Gelsenkirchen
7.9 km (4.9 miles) northeast · straight line
Straight-line distances from one city centre to another, as the crow flies. Roads between them are longer.
EssenWithin 100 km100 km to 300 kmDashed rings: 100 km and 300 km in a straight line from the centre.
Cities and towns within 100 km of Essen
The 40 largest of the 208 within 100 km, nearest first. Distances are straight lines.
| Place | Direction | Straight line |
|---|---|---|
| GelsenkirchenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | northeast | 7.9 km4.9 miles |
| WattenscheidNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-northeast | 9.4 km5.8 miles |
| BottropNorth Rhine-Westphalia | northwest | 9.5 km5.9 miles |
| GladbeckNorth Rhine-Westphalia | north | 13 km8 miles |
| BochumNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east | 14 km8.9 miles |
| HerneNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-northeast | 17 km11 miles |
| HertenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | north-northeast | 18 km11 miles |
| RecklinghausenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | northeast | 22 km13 miles |
| MarlNorth Rhine-Westphalia | north-northeast | 23 km14 miles |
| DorstenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | north | 23 km14 miles |
| Castrop-RauxelNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-northeast | 24 km15 miles |
| WittenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east | 24 km15 miles |
| DortmundNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-northeast | 32 km20 miles |
| HagenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-southeast | 34 km21 miles |
| LünenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-northeast | 40 km25 miles |
| LeverkusenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | south | 47 km29 miles |
| UnnaNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east | 48 km30 miles |
| IserlohnNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east | 49 km30 miles |
| LüdenscheidNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-southeast | 50 km31 miles |
| BocholtNorth Rhine-Westphalia | north-northwest | 51 km31 miles |
| Bergisch GladbachNorth Rhine-Westphalia | south | 53 km33 miles |
| CologneNorth Rhine-Westphalia | south | 58 km36 miles |
| VenloLimburg, Netherlands | west | 59 km37 miles |
| HammNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-northeast | 61 km38 miles |
| KerpenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | south-southwest | 69 km43 miles |
| MünsterNorth Rhine-Westphalia | northeast | 70 km44 miles |
| TroisdorfNorth Rhine-Westphalia | south | 73 km45 miles |
| ArnsbergNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east | 75 km46 miles |
| BonnNorth Rhine-Westphalia | south | 81 km50 miles |
| DürenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | south-southwest | 81 km50 miles |
| EnschedeOverijssel, Netherlands | north | 85 km53 miles |
| NijmegenGelderland, Netherlands | west-northwest | 91 km56 miles |
| HengeloOverijssel, Netherlands | north | 91 km57 miles |
| HelmondNorth Brabant, Netherlands | west | 94 km58 miles |
| LippstadtNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-northeast | 95 km59 miles |
| ArnhemGelderland, Netherlands | northwest | 96 km59 miles |
| SiegenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | southeast | 96 km59 miles |
| HeerlenLimburg, Netherlands | southwest | 96 km60 miles |
| RheineNorth Rhine-Westphalia | north-northeast | 97 km60 miles |
| AachenNorth Rhine-Westphalia | southwest | 100 km62 miles |
From 100 km to 300 km of Essen
The 30 largest of the 819 between 100 km and 300 km, nearest first. Distances are straight lines.
| Place | Direction | Straight line |
|---|---|---|
| EindhovenNorth Brabant, Netherlands | west | 106 km66 miles |
| OsnabrückLower Saxony | northeast | 115 km72 miles |
| BielefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia | east-northeast | 123 km76 miles |
| TilburgNorth Brabant, Netherlands | west | 133 km83 miles |
| LiègeWallonia, Belgium | southwest | 136 km85 miles |
| UtrechtUtrecht, Netherlands | west-northwest | 148 km92 miles |
| BredaNorth Brabant, Netherlands | west | 155 km97 miles |
| Almere StadFlevoland, Netherlands | northwest | 160 km99 miles |
| KasselHesse | east | 173 km108 miles |
| WiesbadenHesse | south-southeast | 175 km109 miles |
| AmsterdamNorth Holland, Netherlands | northwest | 178 km110 miles |
| RotterdamSouth Holland, Netherlands | west-northwest | 182 km113 miles |
| AntwerpFlanders, Belgium | west | 183 km114 miles |
| MainzRheinland-Pfalz | south-southeast | 187 km116 miles |
| FrankfurtHesse | southeast | 190 km118 miles |
| BrusselsBrussels Capital, Belgium | west-southwest | 198 km123 miles |
| GroningenGroningen, Netherlands | north | 198 km123 miles |
| The HagueSouth Holland, Netherlands | west-northwest | 199 km124 miles |
| DarmstadtHesse | southeast | 211 km131 miles |
| HannoverLower Saxony | east-northeast | 213 km132 miles |
| CharleroiWallonia, Belgium | west-southwest | 214 km133 miles |
| BremenBremen | north-northeast | 218 km135 miles |
| GentFlanders, Belgium | west | 234 km145 miles |
| MannheimBaden-Wurttemberg | south-southeast | 242 km150 miles |
| Ludwigshafen am RheinRheinland-Pfalz | south-southeast | 242 km150 miles |
| SaarbrückenSaarland | south | 247 km154 miles |
| BraunschweigLower Saxony | east-northeast | 258 km160 miles |
| ErfurtThuringia | east | 285 km177 miles |
| KarlsruheBaden-Wurttemberg | south-southeast | 290 km180 miles |
| LilleHauts-de-France, France | west-southwest | 291 km181 miles |
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Questions
What is the closest city to Essen?
Gelsenkirchen is the nearest city or town of 15,000 people or more, 7.9 km (4.9 miles) northeast of Essen's centre in a straight line. A smaller town or a suburb may be closer.
Are these driving distances from Essen?
No. Every distance on this page is a straight line between two centre points, as the crow flies. A road route is always longer, because roads bend around terrain and water, and MapGO does not measure driving distance or travel time.
Which places count as near Essen?
Every city and town of 15,000 people or more in the GeoNames gazetteer whose centre lies within 300 km of Essen's centre. Villages and smaller towns are left out, so there are more places nearby than listed. A place right on a ring may fall either side of it, depending on where its centre point sits.
Places and their centre points from GeoNames (cities and towns of 15,000 people or more); distances computed by MapGO with the haversine formula. All distances on this page are straight lines over the Earth's surface, not road distances.