Louisville · the midpoint
Louisville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. Read more →
The fair place to meet is Louisville, KY — the city closest to the midpoint of Buffalo and Dallas. From the farther side that’s about 15 hr 14 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Louisville, KY
From Buffalo
10 hr 7 min
482 mi to Louisville
From Dallas
15 hr 14 min
726 mi to Louisville
Buffalo has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 5 hr 7 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Buffalo and Dallas are about 1,198 miles apart.
Buffalo and Dallas are about 1,198 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Louisville, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 10 hr 7 min of driving on the Buffalo side and 15 hr 14 min on the Dallas 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. Louisville still makes a fair, central place for Buffalo and Dallas to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.
If Louisville doesn't have what you're after, Nashville and Indianapolis are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Buffalo and Dallas.
Louisville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. Read more →
Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It lies in Western New York on the eastern shore of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River on the Canada–United States border. Read more →
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in the state's northern region, it is the ninth-most populous city in the United States and third-most populous city in Texas, with a population of 1.3 million 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.