Distance between Ottawa and Vancouver (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Ottawa and Vancouver, both in Canada, is 2,200 miles (3,540 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
2,200 miles
3,540 km · straight line
Heading from Ottawa
294° (west-northwest)
initial compass bearing to Vancouver
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~4 h 25 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
OttawaVancouverThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Ottawa to Vancouver at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 2,200 miles (3,540 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Ottawa
- 294° (west-northwest) to Vancouver
- Heading from Vancouver
- 79° (east-northeast) to Ottawa
- Midpoint
- 49.8327° N, 98.4940° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 4 h 25 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.
- Ottawa, Canada
- 45.4112° N, 75.6981° W (city centre)
- Vancouver, Canada
- 49.2497° N, 123.1193° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Ottawa
- Ottawa to Montréal102 miles
- Ottawa to Toronto217 miles
- Ottawa to Edmonton1,762 miles
- Ottawa to Calgary1,788 miles
Other distances from Vancouver
- Vancouver to Calgary419 miles
- Vancouver to Edmonton511 miles
- Vancouver to Toronto2,085 miles
- Vancouver to Montréal2,290 miles
- Vancouver to London4,711 miles
Questions
Is 2,200 miles (3,540 km) the driving distance from Ottawa to Vancouver?
No. 2,200 miles (3,540 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 Ottawa and Vancouver measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Ottawa's centre (45.4112° N, 75.6981° W) to Vancouver's (49.2497° N, 123.1193° 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.