Distances from Lewiston, ID to nearby cities and major US destinations
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Lewiston, ID to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Lewiston, ID sits in Idaho, on Los Angeles time, at 46.42° north and 117.02° west. The nearest place of any size is Moscow, ID, about 27 miles away — roughly 42 min of driving. 2 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 12 are within three hours' driving of Lewiston, ID and 101 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 Seattle, WA, about 306 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 Lewiston, ID
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Lewiston, ID. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 6 of 12 — lies to the north, with 4 to the west. Only 1 sit 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.
3 of those places are in Idaho and 9 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 994 miles out, roughly 15 hr 46 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,579 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 Lewiston, ID, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Lewiston, ID
- Moscow, ID 27 mi · 42 min
- Pullman, WA 28 mi · 44 min
- Walla Walla, WA 79 mi · 1 hr 34 min
- Spokane Valley, WA 101 mi · 2 hr 2 min
- Coeur d’Alene, ID 102 mi · 2 hr 2 min
- Spokane, WA 102 mi · 2 hr 3 min
- Post Falls, ID 104 mi · 2 hr 5 min
- Pasco, WA 116 mi · 2 hr 19 min
- Kennewick, WA 118 mi · 2 hr 22 min
- Richland, WA 126 mi · 2 hr 6 min
Major cities from Lewiston, ID
- Los Angeles, CA 994 mi · 15 hr 46 min
- Phoenix, AZ 1082 mi · 17 hr 11 min
- Chicago, IL 1718 mi · 27 hr 16 min
- San Antonio, TX 1787 mi · 28 hr 22 min
- Houston, TX 1898 mi · 30 hr 7 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2524 mi · 40 hr 4 min
- Manhattan, NY 2568 mi · 40 hr 46 min
- New York City, NY 2569 mi · 40 hr 47 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2575 mi · 40 hr 52 min
- Queens, NY 2579 mi · 40 hr 56 min