Distances from Florence-Graham, CA to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Florence-Graham, CA to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Florence-Graham, CA sits in California, on Los Angeles time, at 33.97° north and 118.24° west. The nearest place of any size is Westmont, CA, about 5 miles away — roughly 10 min of driving. 105 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 196 are within three hours' driving of Florence-Graham, CA and 253 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 Los Angeles, CA, about 8 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 Florence-Graham, CA
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Florence-Graham, CA. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 65 of 196 — lies to the east, with 58 to the southeast. Only 5 sit to the south. 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.
196 of those places are in California and 0 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: San Diego, CA is about 124 miles out, roughly 2 hr 4 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,850 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 Florence-Graham, CA, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Florence-Graham, CA
Major cities from Florence-Graham, CA
- San Diego, CA 124 mi · 2 hr 4 min
- Phoenix, AZ 413 mi · 6 hr 34 min
- San Antonio, TX 1393 mi · 22 hr 6 min
- Houston, TX 1590 mi · 25 hr 14 min
- Chicago, IL 2023 mi · 32 hr 6 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2773 mi · 44 hr 1 min
- New York City, NY 2840 mi · 45 hr 4 min
- Manhattan, NY 2842 mi · 45 hr 6 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2843 mi · 45 hr 8 min
- Queens, NY 2850 mi · 45 hr 14 min