The fair place to meet is San Jose, CA — the city closest to the midpoint of Albuquerque and Honolulu. From the farther side that’s about 50 hr 36 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
San Jose, CA
From Albuquerque
18 hr 5 min
863 mi to San Jose
From Honolulu
50 hr 36 min
2,413 mi to San Jose
Albuquerque has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 32 hr 31 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Albuquerque and Honolulu are about 3,223 miles apart.
Albuquerque and Honolulu are about 3,223 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near San Jose, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 18 hr 5 min of driving on the Albuquerque side and 50 hr 36 min on the Honolulu side — the fairest single meeting point among the cities near the middle.
Over this distance most people will fly rather than drive the whole way. San Jose still makes a fair, central place for Albuquerque and Honolulu to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.
If San Jose doesn't have what you're after, San Francisco and Los Angeles are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Albuquerque and Honolulu.
San Jose, officially the City of San José, is the most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with an estimated 989,814 residents as of 2025. Read more →
Albuquerque is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Founded in 1706 as La Villa de Alburquerque by Santa Fe de Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, and named in honor of Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque… Read more →
Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island of Oʻahu. Read more →
City descriptions adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); photos via Wikimedia Commons, credited above.
Estimates use straight-line distance and typical road speeds; real drive times vary with route and traffic.