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Canadian road distances in kilometres and miles

Driving distances in kilometres between Canadian cities, with drive times and estimated fuel costs. This is a small selection of routes; the full United States calculator covers every state.

Why 11 routes and not the whole country

These 11 routes are here because they were asked for. Each one was a page on the old site that other sites still link to, so each one still gets visitors arriving from somewhere. Rebuilding them keeps those links working. What is deliberately absent is everything around them: there is no province index, no Canadian city hub, no Canadian equivalent of the popular-routes list. Those pages had no links and no measurable traffic, and the place dataset behind this site covers Canada far more thinly than it covers the United States, so generating them would have produced pages with nothing in them.

The set is unusually spread out as a result. It runs from Sainte-Adèle to Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, about 22 km, up to Ottawa to Vancouver, British Columbia at roughly 4,175 km — a factor of more than a hundred between the two ends, across 5 provinces and territories. 3 of them are under an hour behind the wheel and 3 take more than twelve hours. There is no single sensible way to present a set like that, which is another reason it is a flat list rather than a browsable hierarchy.

Two differences from the US pages are worth knowing before you read one. Distances here lead with kilometres, because that is what Canadian road signs use, with miles alongside. And the fuel figures are the site's US assumptions — dollars per gallon — restated for the route, not Canadian pump prices in cents per litre, so treat them as a rough comparison between routes rather than a budget. The method is the same one used everywhere else on the site and is set out in full under how distances are estimated, including why these are estimates rather than routed figures.

One route in the set crosses two time zones, and several cross provincial boundaries, which matters for speed limits and winter tyre rules in the same way state lines do further south. The road safety guides cover the driving side of that even though they are written around US conditions; the physics of a twelve-hour day at the wheel does not change at the border. For anything on the American side, the calculator on the home page answers any pair of the sixteen thousand US places in the dataset, whether or not that pair has a page of its own.

Questions about the Canadian routes

Which Canadian routes are covered?
A small selection rather than the whole country. These are the Canadian city pairs that carry inbound links from elsewhere on the web, so they are rebuilt to keep those links working. The full calculator covers the United States; Canadian coverage beyond these routes is not built yet.

Why are distances shown in kilometres first?
Because that is how they are signed in Canada and how Canadians ask the question. Miles appear alongside for anyone working from a US map or comparing against a US route, but the kilometre figure is the primary one on these pages.

Are these driving distances?
Yes, estimated ones. The method is identical to the rest of the site: the straight-line distance with an allowance added for how much longer roads run. It is approximate rather than routed.

Is the fuel cost in Canadian dollars?
No. Fuel is quoted in US dollars per US gallon for consistency with the rest of the site, so on a Canadian route it is useful for comparison rather than as a budget. Canadian pumps price per litre and rates vary by province, so convert before relying on the figure.

Do the drive times allow for weather?
No. Every time assumes free-flowing conditions and no stops. On Canadian routes that assumption is worth more scepticism than usual: winter conditions and mountain passes can move a drive time far more than the distance suggests.

Will more Canadian routes be added?
Possibly. The engine already handles Canadian cities, so the work is a dataset and coverage decision rather than a technical one. For now the pages here exist to serve routes that people already link to.

Can you work out a route between a Canadian and a US city?
Not on these pages. The calculator covers US city pairs, and the Canadian routes here are fixed pages rather than a live tool. A cross-border route would need both datasets in the same calculation, which is not built.

Are the province names always shown?
Where a city name alone would be ambiguous, yes. Several Canadian city names repeat across provinces, so the province is included in the page title and in the text when it is needed to identify the place unambiguously.