Distances from New Bedford, MA to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from New Bedford, MA to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
New Bedford, MA sits in Massachusetts, on New York time, at 41.64° north and 70.93° west. The nearest place of any size is Fall River, MA, about 17 miles away — roughly 27 min of driving. 30 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 173 are within three hours' driving of New Bedford, MA and 427 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 58 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 New Bedford, MA
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around New Bedford, MA. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 75 of 173 — lies to the north, with 62 to the west. Only 2 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.
86 of those places are in Massachusetts and 87 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: Queens, NY is about 197 miles out, roughly 3 hr 17 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 3,017 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 New Bedford, MA, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to New Bedford, MA
Major cities from New Bedford, MA
- Queens, NY 197 mi · 3 hr 17 min
- Manhattan, NY 199 mi · 3 hr 19 min
- New York City, NY 202 mi · 3 hr 22 min
- Brooklyn, NY 203 mi · 3 hr 23 min
- Philadelphia, PA 297 mi · 4 hr 57 min
- Chicago, IL 1022 mi · 16 hr 14 min
- Houston, TX 1869 mi · 29 hr 40 min
- San Antonio, TX 2064 mi · 32 hr 46 min
- Phoenix, AZ 2669 mi · 42 hr 22 min
- Los Angeles, CA 3017 mi · 47 hr 53 min