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 San Diego and Seattle
The fair place to meet is Sacramento, CA — the city closest to the midpoint of San Diego and Seattle. From the farther side that’s about 13 hr 6 min of driving.
Recommended midpoint
Sacramento, CA
From San Diego
9 hr 55 min
473 mi to Sacramento
From Seattle
13 hr 6 min
625 mi to Sacramento
San Diego has the shorter trip; the split is off by about 3 hr 11 min. The alternatives below can even it out. San Diego and Seattle are about 1,064 miles apart.
More meetups from San Diego
Meeting in Sacramento
San Diego and Seattle are about 1,064 miles apart by road. Split the difference and you arrive near Sacramento, the city closest to the halfway point between them. That puts roughly 9 hr 55 min of driving on the San Diego 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 San Diego 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 San Diego and Seattle.
About the cities
San Diego
San Diego is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. It is the eighth-most populous city in the U.S. 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 San Diego and Seattle?
- Sacramento, CA is closest to the geographic midpoint, which makes it the fairest place to meet.
- How far apart are they?
- About 1,064 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.