Distance between Las Vegas and Los Angeles (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, both in the United States, is 229 miles (368 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
229 miles
368 km · straight line
Heading from Las Vegas
231° (southwest)
initial compass bearing to Los Angeles
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~30 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
Las VegasLos AngelesThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Las Vegas to Los Angeles at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 229 miles (368 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Las Vegas
- 231° (southwest) to Los Angeles
- Heading from Los Angeles
- 49° (northeast) to Las Vegas
- Midpoint
- 35.1235° N, 116.7107° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 30 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.
- Las Vegas, United States
- 36.1750° N, 115.1372° W (city centre)
- Los Angeles, United States
- 34.0522° N, 118.2437° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Las Vegas
- Las Vegas to San Francisco417 miles
- Las Vegas to Mexico City1,511 miles
- Las Vegas to Chicago1,520 miles
- Las Vegas to Toronto1,947 miles
- Las Vegas to Miami2,177 miles
- Las Vegas to New York2,227 miles
Other distances from Los Angeles
- Los Angeles to San Francisco347 miles
- Los Angeles to Houston1,371 miles
- Los Angeles to Mexico City1,548 miles
- Los Angeles to Chicago1,741 miles
- Los Angeles to Toronto2,171 miles
- Los Angeles to Miami2,335 miles
Questions
Is 229 miles (368 km) the driving distance from Las Vegas to Los Angeles?
No. 229 miles (368 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 Las Vegas and Los Angeles measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Las Vegas's centre (36.1750° N, 115.1372° W) to Los Angeles's (34.0522° N, 118.2437° 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.