Distances from Winter Garden, FL to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Winter Garden, FL to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Winter Garden, FL sits in Florida, on New York time, at 28.57° north and 81.59° west. The nearest place of any size is Pine Hills, FL, about 11 miles away — roughly 22 min of driving. 25 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 105 are within three hours' driving of Winter Garden, FL and 195 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 Orlando, FL, about 17 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 Winter Garden, FL
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Winter Garden, FL. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 35 of 105 — lies to the southwest, with 18 to the southeast. Only 4 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.
105 of those places are in Florida 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: Houston, TX is about 981 miles out, roughly 15 hr 35 min of driving, while Los Angeles, CA is around 2,567 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 Winter Garden, FL, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Winter Garden, FL
- Pine Hills, FL 11 mi · 22 min
- Apopka, FL 12 mi · 24 min
- Clermont, FL 15 mi · 24 min
- Oak Ridge, FL 16 mi · 25 min
- Orlando, FL 17 mi · 27 min
- Wekiwa Springs, FL 18 mi · 29 min
- Winter Park, FL 19 mi · 29 min
- Four Corners, FL 20 mi · 32 min
- Altamonte Springs, FL 20 mi · 32 min
- Casselberry, FL 21 mi · 34 min
Major cities from Winter Garden, FL
- Houston, TX 981 mi · 15 hr 35 min
- Philadelphia, PA 1024 mi · 16 hr 15 min
- Brooklyn, NY 1106 mi · 17 hr 33 min
- Queens, NY 1111 mi · 17 hr 38 min
- New York City, NY 1119 mi · 17 hr 45 min
- Manhattan, NY 1124 mi · 17 hr 51 min
- Chicago, IL 1136 mi · 18 hr 2 min
- San Antonio, TX 1203 mi · 19 hr 6 min
- Phoenix, AZ 2151 mi · 34 hr 8 min
- Los Angeles, CA 2567 mi · 40 hr 45 min