13 comparison tools
Distance & travel
How far that is in marathons, road trips, flights and trips around the planet.
- Commute distance A daily commute turned into weekly, yearly and lifetime distances, against journeys you would notice.
- Distance in football pitches The commentator’s unit made literal: any distance in 105 m football pitches.
- Distance in light time A distance expressed as light travel time, from a nanosecond across a desk to years across space.
- Distance in marathons Any distance divided by 42.195 km — the only running distance everyone knows by heart.
- Distance in steps A distance converted into steps, with the daily targets people actually chase.
- Driving distances A distance against famous road trips and typical daily driving.
- Flight distances A distance against the world’s best-known flight routes, from a shuttle hop to the longest route flown.
- How deep underground A depth against basements, metro tunnels, mines and the deepest hole ever drilled.
- How far can you see? Horizon distance from eye level, a ladder, a lighthouse, an airliner and orbit.
- How far is space? A distance against the layers of the atmosphere, the Kármán line and low Earth orbit.
- How far is that? Any distance placed between a football pitch, a marathon, a transatlantic flight and the Moon.
- Longest things A length against the longest rivers, walls, railways, tunnels and bridges built or found.
- Times around the world A total distance divided by one lap of the equator — 40 075 kilometres.