Distance between Houston and New York (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Houston and New York, both in the United States, is 1,417 miles (2,281 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
1,417 miles
2,281 km · straight line
Heading from Houston
52° (northeast)
initial compass bearing to New York
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~2 h 50 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
HoustonNew YorkThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Houston to New York at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 1,417 miles (2,281 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Houston
- 52° (northeast) to New York
- Heading from New York
- 244° (west-southwest) to Houston
- Midpoint
- 35.7096° N, 85.4162° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 2 h 50 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.
- Houston, United States
- 29.7633° N, 95.3633° W (city centre)
- New York, United States
- 40.7143° N, 74.0060° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Houston
- Houston to Chicago939 miles
- Houston to Miami967 miles
- Houston to Los Angeles1,371 miles
- Houston to San Francisco1,643 miles
Other distances from New York
- New York to Toronto345 miles
- New York to Chicago712 miles
- New York to Miami1,092 miles
- New York to Mexico City2,087 miles
- New York to Las Vegas2,227 miles
- New York to Los Angeles2,446 miles
Questions
Is 1,417 miles (2,281 km) the driving distance from Houston to New York?
No. 1,417 miles (2,281 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 Houston and New York measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Houston's centre (29.7633° N, 95.3633° W) to New York's (40.7143° N, 74.0060° 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.