Distances from Kailua, HI to nearby cities and major US destinations
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Kailua, HI to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Kailua, HI sits in Hawaii, on Pacific/Honolulu time, at 21.40° north and 157.74° west. The nearest place of any size is Kaneohe, HI, about 5 miles away — roughly 10 min of driving. 7 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 9 are within three hours' driving of Kailua, 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 14 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 Kailua, HI
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Kailua, HI. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 5 of 9 — lies to the west, with 2 to the southeast. Only 1 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.
9 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 2,958 miles out, roughly 46 hr 57 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 5,752 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day. 1 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 Kailua, HI, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
The map covers the contiguous United States, so it cannot place Kailua, HI. Every distance and time on this page is still calculated in full.
Closest cities to Kailua, HI
Major cities from Kailua, HI
- Los Angeles, CA 2958 mi · 46 hr 57 min
- Phoenix, AZ 3360 mi · 53 hr 20 min
- Houston, TX 4507 mi · 71 hr 32 min
- New Orleans, LA 4868 mi · 77 hr 16 min
- Chicago, IL 4916 mi · 78 hr 2 min
- Philadelphia, PA 5686 mi · 90 hr 15 min
- New York City, NY 5742 mi · 91 hr 8 min
- Manhattan, NY 5743 mi · 91 hr 9 min
- Brooklyn, NY 5746 mi · 91 hr 12 min
- Queens, NY 5752 mi · 91 hr 18 min