Distance between Las Vegas and San Francisco (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Las Vegas and San Francisco, both in the United States, is 417 miles (671 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
417 miles
671 km · straight line
Heading from Las Vegas
288° (west-northwest)
initial compass bearing to San Francisco
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~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.
Las VegasSan FranciscoThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Las Vegas to San Francisco at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 417 miles (671 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Las Vegas
- 288° (west-northwest) to San Francisco
- Heading from San Francisco
- 103° (east-southeast) to Las Vegas
- Midpoint
- 37.0306° N, 118.7400° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 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.
- Las Vegas, United States
- 36.1750° N, 115.1372° W (city centre)
- San Francisco, United States
- 37.7749° N, 122.4194° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Las Vegas
- Las Vegas to Los Angeles229 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 San Francisco
- San Francisco to Los Angeles347 miles
- San Francisco to Houston1,643 miles
- San Francisco to Chicago1,854 miles
- San Francisco to Mexico City1,888 miles
- San Francisco to Toronto2,263 miles
- San Francisco to New York2,566 miles
Questions
Is 417 miles (671 km) the driving distance from Las Vegas to San Francisco?
No. 417 miles (671 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 San Francisco 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 San Francisco's (37.7749° N, 122.4194° 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.