MidRally

Meet halfway between Indianapolis and San Antonio

The fair place to meet is Memphis, TN — the city closest to the midpoint of Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis

8 hr 3 min

384 mi to Memphis

From San Antonio

13 hr 15 min

632 mi to Memphis

Indianapolis has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 5 hr 12 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Indianapolis and San Antonio are about 1,000 miles apart.

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Meeting in Memphis

Indianapolis and San Antonio are about 1,000 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 3 min of driving on the Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis 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, Dallas and Oklahoma City are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Indianapolis 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 →

Indianapolis

Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Marion County. Indianapolis is situated in the state's central till plain region along the west fork of the White River. 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 Indianapolis 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 1,000 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.