Distances from Twentynine Palms, CA to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Twentynine Palms, CA to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Twentynine Palms, CA sits in California, on Los Angeles time, at 34.14° north and 116.05° west. The nearest place of any size is Yucca Valley, CA, about 26 miles away — roughly 42 min of driving. 7 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 202 are within three hours' driving of Twentynine Palms, CA and 273 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 Riverside, CA, about 90 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 Twentynine Palms, CA
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Twentynine Palms, CA. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 137 of 202 — lies to the west, with 40 to the southwest. Only 1 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.
185 of those places are in California and 17 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: Los Angeles, CA is about 145 miles out, roughly 2 hr 25 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,712 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 Twentynine Palms, CA, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Twentynine Palms, CA
- Yucca Valley, CA 26 mi · 42 min
- Desert Hot Springs, CA 35 mi · 55 min
- Indio, CA 37 mi · 58 min
- Coachella, CA 39 mi · 1 hr 2 min
- Palm Desert, CA 42 mi · 50 min
- Cathedral City, CA 42 mi · 50 min
- Palm Springs, CA 43 mi · 51 min
- La Quinta, CA 44 mi · 52 min
- Banning, CA 57 mi · 1 hr 9 min
- Beaumont, CA 63 mi · 1 hr 16 min
Major cities from Twentynine Palms, CA
- Los Angeles, CA 145 mi · 2 hr 25 min
- Phoenix, AZ 271 mi · 4 hr 31 min
- San Antonio, TX 1253 mi · 19 hr 53 min
- Houston, TX 1447 mi · 22 hr 58 min
- Chicago, IL 1887 mi · 29 hr 57 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2634 mi · 41 hr 48 min
- New York City, NY 2701 mi · 42 hr 53 min
- Manhattan, NY 2703 mi · 42 hr 55 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2705 mi · 42 hr 56 min
- Queens, NY 2712 mi · 43 hr 3 min