MidRally

Meet halfway between Cincinnati and San Antonio

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.

Memphis, TN
Memphis, TN — the midpoint Photo: Quintin Soloviev / CC BY 4.0 · Commons

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.

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Meeting in Memphis

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.

About the cities

Memphis · the midpoint

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

Cincinnati

Cincinnati is the most populous city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. 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 Cincinnati 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 1,039 miles by road.
How long is the drive to meet in the middle?
Roughly 13 hr 15 min from the farther city to Memphis.

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