Distances from Newport Beach, CA to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Newport Beach, CA to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Newport Beach, CA sits in California, on Los Angeles time, at 33.62° north and 117.93° west. The nearest place of any size is Huntington Beach, CA, about 7 miles away — roughly 13 min of driving. 112 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 199 are within three hours' driving of Newport Beach, CA and 247 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 Irvine, CA, about 10 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 Newport Beach, CA
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Newport Beach, CA. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 58 of 199 — lies to the northwest, with 53 to the north. Only 1 sit to the west. 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.
199 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: Long Beach, CA is about 22 miles out, roughly 35 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,842 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day. 3 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 Newport Beach, CA, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Newport Beach, CA
- Huntington Beach, CA 7 mi · 13 min
- Fountain Valley, CA 9 mi · 17 min
- Irvine, CA 10 mi · 19 min
- Santa Ana, CA 13 mi · 26 min
- Laguna Beach, CA 14 mi · 27 min
- Tustin, CA 14 mi · 29 min
- Westminster, CA 15 mi · 29 min
- Garden Grove, CA 15 mi · 29 min
- Aliso Viejo, CA 17 mi · 26 min
- Laguna Hills, CA 17 mi · 27 min
Major cities from Newport Beach, CA
- Long Beach, CA 22 mi · 35 min
- Los Angeles, CA 43 mi · 51 min
- Riverside, CA 47 mi · 56 min
- Portland, OR 998 mi · 15 hr 50 min
- Houston, TX 1566 mi · 24 hr 52 min
- Chicago, IL 2017 mi · 32 hr 1 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2765 mi · 43 hr 53 min
- New York City, NY 2832 mi · 44 hr 57 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2836 mi · 45 hr 1 min
- Queens, NY 2842 mi · 45 hr 7 min