MidRally

Meet halfway between Boise and Memphis

The fair place to meet is Denver, CO — the city closest to the midpoint of Boise and Memphis. From the farther side that’s about 18 hr 24 min of driving.

Denver, CO
Denver, CO — the midpoint Photo: Quintin Soloviev / CC BY 4.0 · Commons

Recommended midpoint

Denver, CO

From Boise

13 hr 21 min

637 mi to Denver

From Memphis

18 hr 24 min

877 mi to Denver

Boise has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 5 hr 3 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Boise and Memphis are about 1,506 miles apart.

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Meeting in Denver

Boise and Memphis are about 1,506 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Denver, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 13 hr 21 min of driving on the Boise side and 18 hr 24 min on the Memphis 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 Boise and Memphis to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.

If Denver doesn't have what you're after, Albuquerque and Omaha are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Boise and Memphis.

About the cities

Denver · the midpoint

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 →

Boise

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 →

Memphis

Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Read more →

City descriptions adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); photos via Wikimedia Commons, credited above.

Questions

Where is the halfway point between Boise and Memphis?
Denver, CO is closest to the geographic midpoint, which makes it the fairest place to meet.
How far apart are they?
About 1,506 miles by road.
How long is the drive to meet in the middle?
Roughly 18 hr 24 min from the farther city to Denver.

Estimates use straight-line distance and typical road speeds; real drive times vary with route and traffic.