Distance between Hamilton and Tauranga (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Hamilton and Tauranga, both in New Zealand, is 78 km (49 miles), 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 km
49 miles · straight line
Heading from Hamilton
82° (east)
initial compass bearing to Tauranga
Midpoint
37.7355° S, 175.7253° E
halfway along the straight line
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
HamiltonTaurangaThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Hamilton to Tauranga at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 78 km (49 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Hamilton
- 82° (east) to Tauranga
- Heading from Tauranga
- 262° (west) to Hamilton
- Midpoint
- 37.7355° S, 175.7253° E, halfway along the straight line
- Hamilton, New Zealand
- 37.7833° S, 175.2833° E (city centre)
- Tauranga, New Zealand
- 37.6861° S, 176.1667° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Hamilton
- Hamilton to Auckland114 km
- Hamilton to Wellington392 km
- Hamilton to Christchurch677 km
- Hamilton to Dunedin982 km
Other distances from Tauranga
- Tauranga to Auckland155 km
- Tauranga to Wellington418 km
- Tauranga to Christchurch715 km
- Tauranga to Dunedin1,024 km
Questions
Is 78 km (49 miles) the driving distance from Hamilton to Tauranga?
No. 78 km (49 miles) 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 Hamilton and Tauranga measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Hamilton's centre (37.7833° S, 175.2833° E) to Tauranga's (37.6861° S, 176.1667° E). 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.