Create a poster showing the distance between two places — free, no sign-up, nothing leaves your browser.
Not on the list? Use 📍 to click the exact spot on the map, or drag a placed pin to fine-tune it. Scroll or pinch on the map to zoom in.
Cities resolve from a built-in database of over 50,000 cities and towns worldwide — no lookups sent anywhere.
Earth is a sphere, but every flat map is a projection that distorts it in some way — there's no way to flatten a curved surface without stretching something. Because of this, a straight line drawn on a flat map is almost never the actual shortest route between two points on the real globe; the true shortest path, called the great-circle route, usually looks like a curve when drawn on a flat projection, even though it's the most direct way to get there. This is exactly why long-haul flight paths shown on an in-flight map often look like they're bowing north or south rather than heading in a straight line toward the destination — the plane is taking the genuinely shortest route, and the flat map is what's distorting the picture, not the flight path.
The built-in database covers over 50,000 cities and towns worldwide, so most places turn up directly — that's what keeps this tool instant and working offline with nothing sent to a server. For the rare place that's still missing, use the 📍 button to click its exact location on the map instead.
As a great-circle distance — the shortest path between two points on a sphere, which is how flight distances are actually measured. It won't match driving distance.
This tool measures the direct great-circle distance between two coordinates. Real flights rarely fly the exact great-circle path due to air traffic routes, weather, and airspace restrictions, so actual flown distance is often somewhat longer than the theoretical straight-line figure.
No. The city list, the map, and the poster are all handled locally in your browser — nothing about what you search for or create is sent to a server.
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