The fair place to meet is Denver, CO — the city closest to the midpoint of Birmingham and Boise. From the farther side that’s about 22 hr 55 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Denver, CO
From Birmingham
22 hr 55 min
1,093 mi to Denver
From Boise
13 hr 21 min
637 mi to Denver
Boise has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 9 hr 34 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Birmingham and Boise are about 1,723 miles apart.
Birmingham and Boise are about 1,723 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Denver, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 22 hr 55 min of driving on the Birmingham side and 13 hr 21 min on the Boise 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. Denver still makes a fair, central place for Birmingham and Boise to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.
If Denver doesn't have what you're after, Oklahoma City and Omaha are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Birmingham and Boise.
Denver is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Officially a consolidated city and county, it is located in the South Platte River valley on the western edge of the High Plains, and is just east of the Front Range of the Rocky… Read more →
Birmingham is a city in the north central region of Alabama, United States. It is the third-most populous city in the state, with an estimated population of 196,357 as of 2024. Read more →
Boise is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the county seat of Ada County. The population of the city was 235,685 at the 2020 census. 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.