Distances from Arden-Arcade, CA to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Arden-Arcade, CA to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Arden-Arcade, CA sits in California, on Los Angeles time, at 38.60° north and 121.38° west. The nearest place of any size is Rancho Cordova, CA, about 6 miles away — roughly 11 min of driving. 24 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 122 are within three hours' driving of Arden-Arcade, CA and 153 within six — which is a better measure of how connected a town is than its position on a map. The nearest city of real size is Sacramento, CA, about 9 miles out.
The two lists below answer different questions. The first is what is physically close, which is what you want for an errand or a day out. The second is the major cities people actually drive to from here, which is usually a longer trip and a different kind of plan. Every figure is an estimated road distance rather than a routed one, and every drive time assumes free-flowing traffic with no allowance for a stop — how the estimate works. For a pair that is not listed here, the calculator will work out any two US cities.
Which way the driving goes from Arden-Arcade, CA
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Arden-Arcade, CA. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 54 of 122 — lies to the southwest, with 34 to the south. Only 3 sit to the east. That asymmetry is usually geography rather than road building: coastline, a state line, mountains or simply empty country in one direction and settlement in another.
119 of those places are in California and 3 are across a state line, which matters more than the mileage does. Speed limits, phone rules and what you may do at a red light are all set state by state, so a drive of the same length can be governed by two sets of rules or by one. The state-by-state differences are set out separately.
The major-city list below spans a wide range: Los Angeles, CA is about 417 miles out, roughly 6 hr 37 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,903 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day.
One thing none of these figures account for: the distance is the same in both directions but the drive often is not. A route that climbs on the way out descends on the way back, rush hour is in one direction in the morning and the other in the evening, and a mountain pass can be open one way and closed the other in winter. The estimate here is symmetrical because the road is; the day is not. For a long haul out of Arden-Arcade, CA, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Arden-Arcade, CA
- Rancho Cordova, CA 6 mi · 11 min
- Foothill Farms, CA 7 mi · 15 min
- North Highlands, CA 8 mi · 16 min
- Sacramento, CA 9 mi · 17 min
- Fair Oaks, CA 9 mi · 17 min
- Florin, CA 10 mi · 21 min
- Antelope, CA 11 mi · 21 min
- West Sacramento, CA 11 mi · 23 min
- Citrus Heights, CA 12 mi · 24 min
- Vineyard, CA 13 mi · 26 min
Major cities from Arden-Arcade, CA
- Los Angeles, CA 417 mi · 6 hr 37 min
- Phoenix, AZ 730 mi · 11 hr 36 min
- San Antonio, TX 1683 mi · 26 hr 43 min
- Houston, TX 1857 mi · 29 hr 28 min
- Chicago, IL 2067 mi · 32 hr 48 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2837 mi · 45 hr 2 min
- New York City, NY 2892 mi · 45 hr 55 min
- Manhattan, NY 2893 mi · 45 hr 56 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2897 mi · 45 hr 59 min
- Queens, NY 2903 mi · 46 hr 5 min