Sacramento · the midpoint
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California. The county seat of Sacramento County, it is located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in the Sacramento Valley. Read more →
Meet halfway between Los Angeles and Portland
The fair place to meet is Sacramento, CA — the city closest to the midpoint of Los Angeles and Portland. From the farther side that’s about 10 hr 8 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Sacramento, CA
From Los Angeles
7 hr 35 min
361 mi to Sacramento
From Portland
10 hr 8 min
483 mi to Sacramento
Los Angeles has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 2 hr 33 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Los Angeles and Portland are about 826 miles apart.
More meetups from Los Angeles
Meeting in Sacramento
Los Angeles and Portland are about 826 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Sacramento, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 7 hr 35 min of driving on the Los Angeles side and 10 hr 8 min on the Portland 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. Sacramento still makes a fair, central place for Los Angeles and Portland to converge, splitting the travel instead of asking one side to cross the country.
If Sacramento doesn't have what you're after, San Francisco and San Jose are also close to the midpoint and worth a look — each keeps the drive reasonably balanced between Los Angeles and Portland.
About the cities
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (LA) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. Read more →
Portland
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located in the Pacific Northwest at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the 28th-most populous city in the United States, sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and… Read more →
City descriptions adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); photos via Wikimedia Commons, credited above.
Questions
- Where is the halfway point between Los Angeles and Portland?
- Sacramento, CA is closest to the geographic midpoint, which makes it the fairest place to meet.
- How far apart are they?
- About 826 miles by road.
- How long is the drive to meet in the middle?
- Roughly 10 hr 8 min from the farther city to Sacramento.
Estimates use straight-line distance and typical road speeds; real drive times vary with route and traffic.