How Far Am I?
Tap “Use my location”, then type any city, address or coordinates — you get the straight-line (great-circle) distance from where you stand, in kilometers and miles, with the compass bearing. The fun ones come free: your live distance to the equator, both poles, and your antipode, computed the moment you locate.
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- Initial bearing
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- Toward
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Open in the distance calculator · straight-line (great-circle) distance — driving is usually 20–40% longer.
- The equator
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- North Pole
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- South Pole
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- Your antipode
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The antipode — the point straight through the Earth from you — is the same distance for everyone on the planet. See yours on the map
What “how far” means here
Every number on this page is a great-circle distance — the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the line a plane would roughly fly. It is not a driving distance: roads wander, so the drive is usually 20–40% longer (why, with real examples). The bearing tells you which way the target lies from where you stand — 0° is true north, 90° due east.
The built-in distances, explained
Equator: your latitude in kilometers, essentially — each degree of latitude spans about 111 km, so at 40°N you're roughly 4,440 km from the equator. The poles: the remainder of the quarter-circle — equator distance and pole distance always add up to about 10,008 km. Your antipode — the point exactly opposite you through the Earth's center — is the one distance that's the same for everyone: about 20,015 km along the surface, whichever direction you set off. See exactly where yours lands on the antipode map.