Memphis · the midpoint
Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Read more →
Meet halfway between Buffalo and San Antonio
The fair place to meet is Memphis, TN — the city closest to the midpoint of Buffalo and San Antonio. From the farther side that’s about 16 hr 49 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Memphis, TN
From Buffalo
16 hr 49 min
802 mi to Memphis
From San Antonio
13 hr 15 min
632 mi to Memphis
San Antonio has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 3 hr 34 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Buffalo and San Antonio are about 1,430 miles apart.
More meetups from Buffalo
Meeting in Memphis
Buffalo and San Antonio are about 1,430 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Memphis, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 16 hr 49 min of driving on the Buffalo side and 13 hr 15 min on the San Antonio 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. Memphis still makes a fair, central place for Buffalo and San Antonio to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.
If Memphis doesn't have what you're after, Nashville and Birmingham are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Buffalo and San Antonio.
About the cities
Buffalo
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 →
San Antonio
San Antonio is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the seventh-most populous city in the United States, the second-most populous city in Texas, and the second-most populous city in the Southern U.S., with a population of 1.43 million at the 2020 census. Read more →
City descriptions adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); photos via Wikimedia Commons, credited above.
Questions
- Where is the halfway point between Buffalo and San Antonio?
- Memphis, TN is closest to the geographic midpoint, which makes it the fairest place to meet.
- How far apart are they?
- About 1,430 miles by road.
- How long is the drive to meet in the middle?
- Roughly 16 hr 49 min from the farther city to Memphis.
Estimates use straight-line distance and typical road speeds; real drive times vary with route and traffic.