Distances from Burlington, VT to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Burlington, VT to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Burlington, VT sits in Vermont, on New York time, at 44.48° north and 73.21° west. The nearest place of any size is Queensbury, NY, about 91 miles away — roughly 1 hr 49 min of driving.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 35 are within three hours' driving of Burlington, VT and 409 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 Boston, MA, about 211 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 Burlington, VT
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Burlington, VT. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 18 of 35 — lies to the southeast, with 11 to the south. Only 1 sit to the west. 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.
Everything within three hours of Burlington, VT lies 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 set state by state, so almost any drive from here is governed by two sets of rules. The state-by-state differences are set out separately.
The major-city list below spans a wide range: Manhattan, NY is about 299 miles out, roughly 4 hr 59 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 2,877 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day. 5 of the 10 routes below have a page of their own, with the towns along the way and how flying compares.
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 Burlington, VT, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Burlington, VT
- Queensbury, NY 91 mi · 1 hr 49 min
- Saratoga Springs, NY 116 mi · 2 hr 20 min
- Keene, NH 135 mi · 2 hr 15 min
- East Concord, NH 138 mi · 2 hr 18 min
- Schenectady, NY 140 mi · 2 hr 20 min
- Concord, NH 140 mi · 2 hr 20 min
- Latham, NY 142 mi · 2 hr 22 min
- Rotterdam, NY 142 mi · 2 hr 22 min
- Troy, NY 143 mi · 2 hr 23 min
- West Albany, NY 147 mi · 2 hr 27 min
Major cities from Burlington, VT
- Manhattan, NY 299 mi · 4 hr 59 min
- New York City, NY 305 mi · 5 hr 5 min
- Brooklyn, NY 310 mi · 5 hr 10 min
- Baltimore, MD 462 mi · 7 hr 20 min
- Pittsburgh, PA 515 mi · 8 hr 10 min
- Charlotte, NC 877 mi · 13 hr 55 min
- Chicago, IL 897 mi · 14 hr 14 min
- Louisville, KY 903 mi · 14 hr 20 min
- Houston, TX 1832 mi · 29 hr 5 min
- Los Angeles, CA 2877 mi · 45 hr 40 min