Distance between Birmingham and Liverpool (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Birmingham and Liverpool, both in the United Kingdom, is 78 miles (126 km), as the crow flies, measured from one city centre to the other. It is the shortest path over the Earth's surface; any road between them is longer.
Straight-line distance
78 miles
126 km · straight line
Heading from Birmingham
325° (northwest)
initial compass bearing to Liverpool
Midpoint
52.9472° N, 2.4331° W
halfway along the straight line
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
BirminghamLiverpoolThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Birmingham to Liverpool at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 78 miles (126 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Birmingham
- 325° (northwest) to Liverpool
- Heading from Liverpool
- 145° (southeast) to Birmingham
- Midpoint
- 52.9472° N, 2.4331° W, halfway along the straight line
- Birmingham, United Kingdom
- 52.4814° N, 1.8998° W (city centre)
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- 53.4106° N, 2.9779° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Birmingham
- Birmingham to Manchester70 miles
- Birmingham to London101 miles
- Birmingham to Edinburgh245 miles
- Birmingham to Glasgow252 miles
Other distances from Liverpool
- Liverpool to Manchester31 miles
- Liverpool to Edinburgh176 miles
- Liverpool to Glasgow177 miles
- Liverpool to London178 miles
Questions
Is 78 miles (126 km) the driving distance from Birmingham to Liverpool?
No. 78 miles (126 km) is the straight-line distance between the two city centres, 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.
How is the distance between Birmingham and Liverpool measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Birmingham's centre (52.4814° N, 1.8998° W) to Liverpool's (53.4106° N, 2.9779° W). This is what "straight-line distance" and "as the crow flies" mean on a globe. On a flat map the line can look curved.
How accurate is this distance?
Within about 0.5% for the two centre points. The figure treats the Earth as a sphere (the haversine formula), while the real Earth is slightly flattened, which shifts a long straight-line distance by up to about 0.5%. Measuring from another part of either city changes it more, since a large city can be tens of kilometres across.
Computed by MapGO from each city's centre point (GeoNames) with the haversine formula. All distances on this page are straight lines over the Earth's surface, not road distances.