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 Seattle
The fair place to meet is Sacramento, CA — the city closest to the midpoint of Los Angeles and Seattle. From the farther side that’s about 13 hr 6 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Sacramento, CA
From Los Angeles
7 hr 35 min
361 mi to Sacramento
From Seattle
13 hr 6 min
625 mi to Sacramento
Los Angeles has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 5 hr 31 min. The alternatives below can even it out. Los Angeles and Seattle are about 960 miles apart.
More meetups from Los Angeles
Meeting in Sacramento
Los Angeles and Seattle are about 960 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 13 hr 6 min on the Seattle 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 Seattle 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 Seattle.
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 →
Seattle
Seattle is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. 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 Seattle?
- Sacramento, CA is closest to the geographic midpoint, which makes it the fairest place to meet.
- How far apart are they?
- About 960 miles by road.
- How long is the drive to meet in the middle?
- Roughly 13 hr 6 min from the farther city to Sacramento.
Estimates use straight-line distance and typical road speeds; real drive times vary with route and traffic.