Distances from Hilo, HI to nearby cities and major US destinations
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Hilo, HI to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Hilo, HI sits in Hawaii, on Pacific/Honolulu time, at 19.73° north and 155.09° west. The nearest place of any size is Kīhei, HI, about 131 miles away — roughly 2 hr 11 min of driving.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 2 are within three hours' driving of Hilo, HI and 10 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 Honolulu, HI, about 243 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 Hilo, HI
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Hilo, HI. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 2 of 2 — lies to the northwest. 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.
2 of those places are in Hawaii 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: Los Angeles, CA is about 2,853 miles out, roughly 45 hr 17 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 5,676 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 Hilo, HI, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
The map covers the contiguous United States, so it cannot place Hilo, HI. Every distance and time on this page is still calculated in full.
Closest cities to Hilo, HI
- Kīhei, HI 131 mi · 2 hr 11 min
- Kahului, HI 139 mi · 2 hr 19 min
- East Honolulu, HI 233 mi · 3 hr 53 min
- Kailua, HI 240 mi · 4 hr
- Honolulu, HI 243 mi · 4 hr 3 min
- Kaneohe, HI 243 mi · 4 hr 3 min
- Pearl City, HI 254 mi · 4 hr 14 min
- ‘Ewa Gentry, HI 256 mi · 4 hr 16 min
- Waipahu, HI 256 mi · 4 hr 16 min
- Mililani Town, HI 259 mi · 4 hr 19 min
Major cities from Hilo, HI
- Los Angeles, CA 2853 mi · 45 hr 17 min
- Phoenix, AZ 3247 mi · 51 hr 32 min
- San Antonio, TX 4159 mi · 66 hr 1 min
- Houston, TX 4375 mi · 69 hr 27 min
- Chicago, IL 4839 mi · 76 hr 49 min
- Philadelphia, PA 5606 mi · 88 hr 59 min
- New York City, NY 5665 mi · 89 hr 55 min
- Manhattan, NY 5667 mi · 89 hr 57 min
- Brooklyn, NY 5669 mi · 90 hr
- Queens, NY 5676 mi · 90 hr 6 min