Distances from South Bel Air, MD to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from South Bel Air, MD to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
South Bel Air, MD sits in Maryland, on New York time, at 39.53° north and 76.34° west. The nearest place of any size is Edgewood, MD, about 11 miles away — roughly 22 min of driving. 39 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 258 are within three hours' driving of South Bel Air, MD and 541 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 Baltimore, MD, about 27 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 South Bel Air, MD
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around South Bel Air, MD. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 125 of 258 — lies to the northeast, with 87 to the southwest. Only 2 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.
67 of those places are in Maryland and 191 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: Philadelphia, PA is about 80 miles out, roughly 1 hr 36 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 2,701 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 South Bel Air, MD, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to South Bel Air, MD
Major cities from South Bel Air, MD
- Philadelphia, PA 80 mi · 1 hr 36 min
- New York City, NY 171 mi · 2 hr 51 min
- Brooklyn, NY 172 mi · 2 hr 52 min
- Manhattan, NY 176 mi · 2 hr 56 min
- Queens, NY 179 mi · 2 hr 59 min
- Chicago, IL 726 mi · 11 hr 32 min
- Houston, TX 1474 mi · 23 hr 24 min
- San Antonio, TX 1666 mi · 26 hr 27 min
- Phoenix, AZ 2338 mi · 37 hr 6 min
- Los Angeles, CA 2701 mi · 42 hr 52 min