Memphis · the midpoint
Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Read more →
The fair place to meet is Memphis, TN — the city closest to the midpoint of Cincinnati and San Antonio. From the farther side that’s about 13 hr 15 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Memphis, TN
From Cincinnati
8 hr 35 min
409 mi to Memphis
From San Antonio
13 hr 15 min
632 mi to Memphis
Cincinnati has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 4 hr 40 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Cincinnati and San Antonio are about 1,039 miles apart.
Cincinnati and San Antonio are about 1,039 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Memphis, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 8 hr 35 min of driving on the Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati 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, Birmingham and Nashville are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Cincinnati and San Antonio.
Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Read more →
Cincinnati is the most populous city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Read more →
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.
Estimates use straight-line distance and typical road speeds; real drive times vary with route and traffic.