The fair place to meet is Oklahoma City, OK — the city closest to the midpoint of Birmingham and Salt Lake City. From the farther side that’s about 18 hr 4 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Oklahoma City, OK
From Birmingham
13 hr 5 min
624 mi to Oklahoma City
From Salt Lake City
18 hr 4 min
861 mi to Oklahoma City
Birmingham has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 4 hr 59 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Birmingham and Salt Lake City are about 1,463 miles apart.
Birmingham and Salt Lake City are about 1,463 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Oklahoma City, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 13 hr 5 min of driving on the Birmingham side and 18 hr 4 min on the Salt Lake City 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. Oklahoma City still makes a fair, central place for Birmingham and Salt Lake City to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.
If Oklahoma City doesn't have what you're after, Kansas City and Dallas are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Birmingham and Salt Lake City.
Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the 21st-most populous U.S. city and 8th largest in the Southern United States, with a population of 681,054 at the 2020 census. 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 →
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. 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.