Distances from Melbourne, FL to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Melbourne, FL to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Melbourne, FL sits in Florida, on New York time, at 28.08° north and 80.61° west. The nearest place of any size is Rockledge, FL, about 24 miles away — roughly 38 min of driving. 5 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 146 are within three hours' driving of Melbourne, FL and 187 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 Orlando, FL, about 65 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 Melbourne, FL
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Melbourne, FL. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 53 of 146 — lies to the south, with 44 to the west. Only 1 sit to the southeast. 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.
146 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: Orlando, FL is about 65 miles out, roughly 1 hr 19 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 2,647 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day. 6 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 Melbourne, FL, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Melbourne, FL
- Rockledge, FL 24 mi · 38 min
- Sebastian, FL 25 mi · 39 min
- Merritt Island, FL 39 mi · 1 hr 1 min
- Vero Beach South, FL 42 mi · 50 min
- Titusville, FL 47 mi · 56 min
- Saint Cloud, FL 49 mi · 59 min
- Fort Pierce, FL 55 mi · 1 hr 6 min
- Buenaventura Lakes, FL 56 mi · 1 hr 8 min
- Alafaya, FL 57 mi · 1 hr 9 min
- Meadow Woods, FL 59 mi · 1 hr 11 min
Major cities from Melbourne, FL
- Orlando, FL 65 mi · 1 hr 19 min
- Atlanta, GA 523 mi · 8 hr 18 min
- Charlotte, NC 573 mi · 9 hr 5 min
- Nashville, TN 771 mi · 12 hr 14 min
- Richmond, VA 788 mi · 12 hr 30 min
- Arlington, VA 896 mi · 14 hr 14 min
- Brooklyn, NY 1098 mi · 17 hr 26 min
- New York City, NY 1102 mi · 17 hr 29 min
- Chicago, IL 1195 mi · 18 hr 58 min
- Los Angeles, CA 2647 mi · 42 hr