Distance between Las Vegas and Mexico City (straight line)

The straight-line distance between Las Vegas (United States) and Mexico City (Mexico) is 1,511 miles (2,431 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

1,511 miles

2,431 km · straight line

Heading from Las Vegas

136° (southeast)

initial compass bearing to Mexico City

Flight time estimate, not a booking

~3 h

at about 800 km/h, in the air only

Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.

Las VegasMexico CityThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.

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Las Vegas to Mexico City at a glance

Straight-line distance
1,511 miles (2,431 km), as the crow flies
Heading from Las Vegas
136° (southeast) to Mexico City
Heading from Mexico City
323° (northwest) to Las Vegas
Midpoint
28.0324° N, 106.5071° W, halfway along the straight line
Flight time estimate, not a booking
About 3 h 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)
Mexico City, Mexico
19.4285° N, 99.1277° W (city centre)

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Questions

Is 1,511 miles (2,431 km) the driving distance from Las Vegas to Mexico City?

No. 1,511 miles (2,431 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 Mexico City 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 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.