Distance between Mexico City and Miami (straight line)

The straight-line distance between Mexico City (Mexico) and Miami (United States) is 1,283 miles (2,065 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

1,283 miles

2,065 km · straight line

Heading from Mexico City

67° (east-northeast)

initial compass bearing to Miami

Flight time estimate, not a booking

~2 h 35 min

at about 800 km/h, in the air only

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

Mexico CityMiamiThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.

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Mexico City to Miami at a glance

Straight-line distance
1,283 miles (2,065 km), as the crow flies
Heading from Mexico City
67° (east-northeast) to Miami
Heading from Miami
254° (west-southwest) to Mexico City
Midpoint
22.8813° N, 89.8811° W, halfway along the straight line
Flight time estimate, not a booking
About 2 h 35 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.
Mexico City, Mexico
19.4285° N, 99.1277° W (city centre)
Miami, United States
25.7743° N, 80.1937° W (city centre)

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Questions

Is 1,283 miles (2,065 km) the driving distance from Mexico City to Miami?

No. 1,283 miles (2,065 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 Mexico City and Miami measured?

Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Mexico City's centre (19.4285° N, 99.1277° 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.