Distances from Wenatchee, WA to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Wenatchee, WA to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Wenatchee, WA sits in Washington, on Los Angeles time, at 47.42° north and 120.31° west. The nearest place of any size is Moses Lake, WA, about 61 miles away — roughly 1 hr 13 min of driving.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 62 are within three hours' driving of Wenatchee, WA and 96 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 Seattle, WA, about 110 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 Wenatchee, WA
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Wenatchee, WA. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 45 of 62 — lies to the west, with 7 to the northwest. Only 1 sit to the southwest. 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.
62 of those places are in Washington 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: Los Angeles, CA is about 1,079 miles out, roughly 17 hr 8 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,747 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 Wenatchee, WA, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Wenatchee, WA
- Moses Lake, WA 61 mi · 1 hr 13 min
- Yakima, WA 67 mi · 1 hr 20 min
- Issaquah, WA 94 mi · 1 hr 52 min
- Maple Valley, WA 94 mi · 1 hr 53 min
- City of Sammamish, WA 95 mi · 1 hr 54 min
- Sammamish, WA 97 mi · 1 hr 57 min
- West Lake Sammamish, WA 98 mi · 1 hr 57 min
- Cottage Lake, WA 99 mi · 1 hr 59 min
- Redmond, WA 100 mi · 2 hr
- East Hill-Meridian, WA 101 mi · 2 hr 1 min
Major cities from Wenatchee, WA
- Los Angeles, CA 1079 mi · 17 hr 8 min
- Phoenix, AZ 1226 mi · 19 hr 28 min
- Chicago, IL 1900 mi · 30 hr 10 min
- San Antonio, TX 1976 mi · 31 hr 22 min
- Houston, TX 2091 mi · 33 hr 12 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2709 mi · 43 hr
- Manhattan, NY 2736 mi · 43 hr 26 min
- New York City, NY 2737 mi · 43 hr 27 min
- Brooklyn, NY 2743 mi · 43 hr 33 min
- Queens, NY 2747 mi · 43 hr 37 min