Distances from Lake Havasu City, AZ to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Lake Havasu City, AZ to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Lake Havasu City, AZ sits in Arizona, on Phoenix time, at 34.48° north and 114.32° west. The nearest place of any size is Bullhead City, AZ, about 56 miles away — roughly 1 hr 7 min of driving.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 47 are within three hours' driving of Lake Havasu City, AZ and 264 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 Henderson, NV, about 132 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 Lake Havasu City, AZ
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Lake Havasu City, AZ. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 15 of 47 — lies to the southeast, with 8 to the north. Only 3 sit to the east. 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.
23 of those places are in Arizona and 24 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: Las Vegas, NV is about 146 miles out, roughly 2 hr 26 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,595 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day. 4 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 Lake Havasu City, AZ, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Lake Havasu City, AZ
- Bullhead City, AZ 56 mi · 1 hr 7 min
- Kingman, AZ 59 mi · 1 hr 11 min
- Twentynine Palms, CA 118 mi · 2 hr 22 min
- Prescott, AZ 123 mi · 2 hr 3 min
- Henderson, NV 132 mi · 2 hr 12 min
- Prescott Valley, AZ 133 mi · 2 hr 13 min
- Enterprise, NV 137 mi · 2 hr 17 min
- Whitney, NV 138 mi · 2 hr 18 min
- Coachella, CA 139 mi · 2 hr 19 min
- Indio, CA 140 mi · 2 hr 20 min
Major cities from Lake Havasu City, AZ
- Las Vegas, NV 146 mi · 2 hr 26 min
- Glendale, AZ 161 mi · 2 hr 41 min
- Mesa, AZ 187 mi · 3 hr 7 min
- San Diego, CA 237 mi · 3 hr 57 min
- Los Angeles, CA 262 mi · 4 hr 22 min
- Houston, TX 1339 mi · 21 hr 15 min
- Chicago, IL 1773 mi · 28 hr 8 min
- New York City, NY 2585 mi · 41 hr 2 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2589 mi · 41 hr 5 min
- Queens, NY 2595 mi · 41 hr 12 min