About CityExtremes

It all started with a question: what city is closest to Honolulu? In the search for a solution, we ended up answering the question for every single city with a population over 100,000. With all this data, we decided to build CityExtremes to not only tell you the closest cities, but also the farthest ones as well. We even went one step further to identify the closest foreign city, the farthest domestic city, and the closest and farthest in each continent.

In case you were wondering, the closest city to Honolulu is Daly City, California.

Trivia

What is the largest distance between a city and its closest city?

Honolulu, Hawaii is the city that is farthest from its closest neighbour, Daly City, California.

What are the farthest city pairs?

There are a few city pairs that are antipodes — exactly on opposite sides of the world. We have calculated that Rosario, Argentina and Xinghua, China are the farthest apart at 19,996 km. See the full farthest city pairs list.

What city is farthest from the most cities?

Some of the same cities appear as the farthest city for many different starting points — particularly Perth, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. The city that is farthest from the most other cities (296 of them) is Tauranga, New Zealand.

Are there any cities considered part of multiple continents?

Cities that span multiple continents are called transcontinental cities. The largest and most notable is Istanbul, Turkey. You may find Istanbul listed as a closest or farthest city in both Europe and Asia.

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Need a specific extract from our database for research, journalism, or a commercial project? We can provide custom data files starting from US$149.

Examples of what we can provide:

• All pairwise distances between a defined set of cities
• Closest or farthest city lists filtered by continent, country, or population threshold
• Capital-to-capital distance matrices
• Custom population thresholds (e.g. cities over 250,000)

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