Distances from Marlborough, MA to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Marlborough, MA to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Marlborough, MA sits in Massachusetts, on New York time, at 42.35° north and 71.55° west. The nearest place of any size is Framingham Center, MA, about 9 miles away — roughly 18 min of driving. 79 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 192 are within three hours' driving of Marlborough, MA and 429 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 Boston, MA, about 31 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 Marlborough, MA
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Marlborough, MA. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 59 of 192 — lies to the southwest, with 32 to the east. Only 6 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.
86 of those places are in Massachusetts and 106 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: Manhattan, NY is about 191 miles out, roughly 3 hr 11 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 2,976 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 Marlborough, MA, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Marlborough, MA
Major cities from Marlborough, MA
- Manhattan, NY 191 mi · 3 hr 11 min
- Queens, NY 195 mi · 3 hr 15 min
- New York City, NY 197 mi · 3 hr 17 min
- Brooklyn, NY 200 mi · 3 hr 20 min
- Philadelphia, PA 290 mi · 4 hr 50 min
- Chicago, IL 983 mi · 15 hr 36 min
- Houston, TX 1833 mi · 29 hr 6 min
- San Antonio, TX 2020 mi · 32 hr 4 min
- Phoenix, AZ 2633 mi · 41 hr 48 min
- Los Angeles, CA 2976 mi · 47 hr 15 min