Distances from White Plains, NY to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from White Plains, NY to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
White Plains, NY sits in New York, on New York time, at 41.03° north and 73.76° west. The nearest place of any size is Greenburgh, NY, about 6 miles away — roughly 11 min of driving. 158 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 340 are within three hours' driving of White Plains, NY and 544 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 19 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 White Plains, NY
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around White Plains, NY. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 114 of 340 — lies to the southwest, with 68 to the northeast. Only 6 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.
135 of those places are in New York and 205 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 25 miles out, roughly 39 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 2,850 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day. 2 of the 10 routes below have a page of their own, with the towns along the way and how flying compares.
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 White Plains, NY, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to White Plains, NY
Major cities from White Plains, NY
- Manhattan, NY 25 mi · 39 min
- Queens, NY 30 mi · 47 min
- New York City, NY 31 mi · 49 min
- Brooklyn, NY 34 mi · 54 min
- Philadelphia, PA 122 mi · 2 hr 2 min
- Chicago, IL 856 mi · 13 hr 35 min
- Houston, TX 1668 mi · 26 hr 29 min
- San Antonio, TX 1858 mi · 29 hr 29 min
- Phoenix, AZ 2498 mi · 39 hr 39 min
- Los Angeles, CA 2850 mi · 45 hr 14 min