Distance between Los Angeles and Miami (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Los Angeles and Miami, both in the United States, is 2,335 miles (3,758 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
2,335 miles
3,758 km · straight line
Heading from Los Angeles
94° (east)
initial compass bearing to Miami
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~4 h 40 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
Los AngelesMiamiThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Los Angeles to Miami at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 2,335 miles (3,758 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Los Angeles
- 94° (east) to Miami
- Heading from Miami
- 293° (west-northwest) to Los Angeles
- Midpoint
- 31.3211° N, 98.3962° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 4 h 40 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.
- Los Angeles, United States
- 34.0522° N, 118.2437° W (city centre)
- Miami, United States
- 25.7743° N, 80.1937° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Los Angeles
- Los Angeles to Las Vegas229 miles
- 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
Other distances from Miami
- Miami to Houston967 miles
- Miami to New York1,092 miles
- Miami to Chicago1,189 miles
- Miami to Toronto1,240 miles
- Miami to Mexico City1,283 miles
- Miami to Las Vegas2,177 miles
Questions
Is 2,335 miles (3,758 km) the driving distance from Los Angeles to Miami?
No. 2,335 miles (3,758 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 Los Angeles and Miami measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Los Angeles's centre (34.0522° N, 118.2437° W) to Miami's (25.7743° N, 80.1937° 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.