Distance between Chicago and Mexico City (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Chicago (United States) and Mexico City (Mexico) is 1,689 miles (2,718 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
1,689 miles
2,718 km · straight line
Heading from Chicago
207° (south-southwest)
initial compass bearing to Mexico City
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~3 h 25 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
ChicagoMexico CityThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Chicago to Mexico City at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 1,689 miles (2,718 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Chicago
- 207° (south-southwest) to Mexico City
- Heading from Mexico City
- 21° (north-northeast) to Chicago
- Midpoint
- 30.7639° N, 94.0648° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 3 h 25 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.
- Chicago, United States
- 41.8500° N, 87.6500° W (city centre)
- Mexico City, Mexico
- 19.4285° N, 99.1277° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Chicago
- Chicago to Toronto437 miles
- Chicago to New York712 miles
- Chicago to Houston939 miles
- Chicago to Miami1,189 miles
- Chicago to Las Vegas1,520 miles
- Chicago to Los Angeles1,741 miles
Other distances from Mexico City
- Mexico City to Miami1,283 miles
- Mexico City to Las Vegas1,511 miles
- Mexico City to Los Angeles1,548 miles
- Mexico City to San Francisco1,888 miles
- Mexico City to Toronto2,029 miles
- Mexico City to New York2,087 miles
Questions
Is 1,689 miles (2,718 km) the driving distance from Chicago to Mexico City?
No. 1,689 miles (2,718 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 Chicago and Mexico City measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Chicago's centre (41.8500° N, 87.6500° W) to Mexico City's (19.4285° N, 99.1277° 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.