Distance between Calgary and Montréal (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Calgary and Montréal, both in Canada, is 1,876 miles (3,019 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
1,876 miles
3,019 km · straight line
Heading from Calgary
86° (east)
initial compass bearing to Montréal
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~3 h 45 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
CalgaryMontréalThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Calgary to Montréal at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 1,876 miles (3,019 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Calgary
- 86° (east) to Montréal
- Heading from Montréal
- 297° (west-northwest) to Calgary
- Midpoint
- 50.0816° N, 92.6895° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 3 h 45 min in the air at a cruising speed of 800 km/h along the straight line. Take-off, landing, the real flight path and any stops add more.
- Calgary, Canada
- 51.0501° N, 114.0853° W (city centre)
- Montréal, Canada
- 45.5088° N, 73.5878° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Calgary
- Calgary to Edmonton175 miles
- Calgary to Vancouver419 miles
- Calgary to Toronto1,683 miles
- Calgary to Ottawa1,788 miles
Other distances from Montréal
- Montréal to Ottawa102 miles
- Montréal to Toronto312 miles
- Montréal to Edmonton1,845 miles
- Montréal to Vancouver2,290 miles
Questions
Is 1,876 miles (3,019 km) the driving distance from Calgary to Montréal?
No. 1,876 miles (3,019 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 Montréal measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Calgary's centre (51.0501° N, 114.0853° W) to Montréal's (45.5088° N, 73.5878° 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.