Google Maps already has a built-in Measure distance feature, but another distance tool can be more convenient when you need a focused calculator for coordinates, addresses, road mileage, radius circles, or a specific measurement workflow.
Google Maps lets you measure straight-line distance between two or more points on a map. You can use the feature on a computer, Android phone or tablet, and iPhone or iPad.
You can find the latitude and longitude of an address by geocoding it . Geocoding converts a human-readable street address, place name, or other location description into geographic coordinates.
A ZIP code distance calculator estimates how far apart two U.S. ZIP Codes are by assigning each ZIP Code a representative geographic location and measuring the distance between those points.
A mileage calculator finds how many miles you need to travel between two locations by road . For a trip between cities, places, or destinations, the useful mileage is normally the length of the driving route rather than the straight-line distance between the e
Driving distance is calculated by finding a route through a road network between a starting point and destination, then measuring the length of the road segments that make up that route.
Use the Driving Distance Calculator when you want road mileage and estimated drive time. Use the Distance Calculator when you want direct great-circle distance between two geographic coordinates.
Use the distance formula to find the straight-line distance between two points on a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate plane.
The Haversine formula calculates the great-circle distance between two latitude and longitude coordinates on a spherical Earth model .
The same idea extends to three dimensions and higher-dimensional coordinate systems by adding the squared difference for each additional coordinate.