Distances from Port Chester, NY to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Port Chester, NY to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Port Chester, NY sits in New York, on New York time, at 41.00° north and 73.67° west. The nearest place of any size is White Plains, NY, about 8 miles away — roughly 15 min of driving. 162 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 344 are within three hours' driving of Port Chester, NY and 542 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 The Bronx, NY, about 20 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 Port Chester, NY
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Port Chester, NY. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 141 of 344 — lies to the southwest, with 88 to the northeast. Only 8 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.
134 of those places are in New York and 210 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 27 miles out, roughly 42 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 2,856 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 Port Chester, NY, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Port Chester, NY
Major cities from Port Chester, NY
- Manhattan, NY 27 mi · 42 min
- Queens, NY 29 mi · 46 min
- New York City, NY 33 mi · 51 min
- Brooklyn, NY 35 mi · 55 min
- Philadelphia, PA 124 mi · 2 hr 4 min
- Chicago, IL 862 mi · 13 hr 41 min
- Houston, TX 1672 mi · 26 hr 33 min
- San Antonio, TX 1862 mi · 29 hr 34 min
- Phoenix, AZ 2503 mi · 39 hr 44 min
- Los Angeles, CA 2856 mi · 45 hr 20 min