Distances from Moorpark, CA to nearby cities and major US destinations
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Moorpark, CA to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Moorpark, CA sits in California, on Los Angeles time, at 34.29° north and 118.88° west. The nearest place of any size is Simi Valley, CA, about 8 miles away — roughly 16 min of driving. 27 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 207 are within three hours' driving of Moorpark, CA and 309 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 Los Angeles, CA, about 49 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 Moorpark, CA
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Moorpark, CA. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 101 of 207 — lies to the southeast, with 76 to the east. Only 1 sit to the south. 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.
207 of those places are in California 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: Los Angeles, CA is about 49 miles out, roughly 58 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,878 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 Moorpark, CA, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Moorpark, CA
Major cities from Moorpark, CA
- Los Angeles, CA 49 mi · 58 min
- Phoenix, AZ 458 mi · 7 hr 16 min
- San Antonio, TX 1439 mi · 22 hr 50 min
- Houston, TX 1635 mi · 25 hr 57 min
- Chicago, IL 2049 mi · 32 hr 31 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2802 mi · 44 hr 29 min
- New York City, NY 2868 mi · 45 hr 31 min
- Manhattan, NY 2870 mi · 45 hr 33 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2872 mi · 45 hr 35 min
- Queens, NY 2878 mi · 45 hr 41 min