Distance between Calgary and Edmonton (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Calgary and Edmonton, both in Canada, is 175 miles (281 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
175 miles
281 km · straight line
Heading from Calgary
8° (north)
initial compass bearing to Edmonton
Midpoint
52.3005° N, 113.7857° W
halfway along the straight line
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
CalgaryEdmontonThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Calgary to Edmonton at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 175 miles (281 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Calgary
- 8° (north) to Edmonton
- Heading from Edmonton
- 189° (south) to Calgary
- Midpoint
- 52.3005° N, 113.7857° W, halfway along the straight line
- Calgary, Canada
- 51.0501° N, 114.0853° W (city centre)
- Edmonton, Canada
- 53.5501° N, 113.4687° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Calgary
- Calgary to Vancouver419 miles
- Calgary to Toronto1,683 miles
- Calgary to Ottawa1,788 miles
- Calgary to Montréal1,876 miles
Other distances from Edmonton
- Edmonton to Vancouver511 miles
- Edmonton to Toronto1,677 miles
- Edmonton to Ottawa1,762 miles
- Edmonton to Montréal1,845 miles
Questions
Is 175 miles (281 km) the driving distance from Calgary to Edmonton?
No. 175 miles (281 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 Calgary and Edmonton measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Calgary's centre (51.0501° N, 114.0853° W) to Edmonton's (53.5501° N, 113.4687° 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.