Distances from Key West, FL to nearby cities and major US destinations
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Key West, FL to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Key West, FL sits in Florida, on New York time, at 24.56° north and 81.78° west. The nearest place of any size is Homestead, FL, about 120 miles away — roughly 2 hr 24 min of driving.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 69 are within three hours' driving of Key West, FL and 145 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 Miami, FL, about 151 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 Key West, FL
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Key West, FL. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 59 of 69 — lies to the northeast, with 10 to the north. 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.
69 of those places are in Florida 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: Houston, TX is about 1,068 miles out, roughly 16 hr 57 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 2,677 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 Key West, FL, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Key West, FL
- Homestead, FL 120 mi · 2 hr 24 min
- Leisure City, FL 124 mi · 2 hr 4 min
- East Naples, FL 127 mi · 2 hr 7 min
- Princeton, FL 127 mi · 2 hr 7 min
- Naples, FL 127 mi · 2 hr 7 min
- Richmond West, FL 130 mi · 2 hr 10 min
- Golden Gate, FL 131 mi · 2 hr 11 min
- South Miami Heights, FL 132 mi · 2 hr 12 min
- The Hammocks, FL 132 mi · 2 hr 12 min
- Cutler Ridge, FL 133 mi · 2 hr 13 min
Major cities from Key West, FL
- Houston, TX 1068 mi · 16 hr 57 min
- San Antonio, TX 1289 mi · 20 hr 28 min
- Philadelphia, PA 1336 mi · 21 hr 13 min
- Brooklyn, NY 1393 mi · 22 hr 6 min
- New York City, NY 1396 mi · 22 hr 9 min
- Queens, NY 1398 mi · 22 hr 11 min
- Manhattan, NY 1402 mi · 22 hr 15 min
- Chicago, IL 1462 mi · 23 hr 12 min
- Phoenix, AZ 2258 mi · 35 hr 51 min
- Los Angeles, CA 2677 mi · 42 hr 30 min