Distances from Sterling Heights, MI to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Sterling Heights, MI to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Sterling Heights, MI sits in Michigan, on Detroit time, at 42.58° north and 83.03° west. The nearest place of any size is Roseville, MI, about 10 miles away — roughly 20 min of driving. 35 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 73 are within three hours' driving of Sterling Heights, MI and 319 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 Detroit, MI, about 21 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 Sterling Heights, MI
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Sterling Heights, MI. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 21 of 73 — lies to the southwest, with 20 to the west. Only 1 sit to the northeast. 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.
57 of those places are in Michigan and 16 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: Chicago, IL is about 300 miles out, roughly 5 hr of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 2,299 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 Sterling Heights, MI, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Sterling Heights, MI
- Roseville, MI 10 mi · 20 min
- Madison Heights, MI 10 mi · 21 min
- Rochester Hills, MI 11 mi · 22 min
- Royal Oak, MI 12 mi · 23 min
- Eastpointe, MI 12 mi · 23 min
- Saint Clair Shores, MI 13 mi · 25 min
- Birmingham, MI 13 mi · 26 min
- Ferndale, MI 13 mi · 27 min
- Oak Park, MI 16 mi · 24 min
- Southfield, MI 17 mi · 26 min
Major cities from Sterling Heights, MI
- Chicago, IL 300 mi · 5 hr
- Philadelphia, PA 577 mi · 9 hr 10 min
- Manhattan, NY 591 mi · 9 hr 23 min
- New York City, NY 592 mi · 9 hr 24 min
- Brooklyn, NY 598 mi · 9 hr 29 min
- Queens, NY 602 mi · 9 hr 34 min
- Houston, TX 1298 mi · 20 hr 36 min
- San Antonio, TX 1450 mi · 23 hr 1 min
- Phoenix, AZ 1962 mi · 31 hr 9 min
- Los Angeles, CA 2299 mi · 36 hr 29 min