Florida

Distance from Pompano Beach to Port St. Lucie

Straight-line distance

73.5mi

Pompano Beach, FL and Port St. Lucie, FL are 73.5 miles (118.3 km) apart in a straight line. From Pompano Beach, the shortest path starts out heading NNW (348°).

kilometers
118.3
nautical miles
63.9
heading from Pompano Beach
348° NNW
heading from Port St. Lucie
168° SSE
Pompano BeachPort St. Lucie

Orange line: great-circle path · ring: midpoint · thin lines: county borders

How far Pompano Beach is from Port St. Lucie

The great-circle distance between the Census internal points of Pompano Beach and Port St. Lucie is 73.5 miles, 118.3 km or 63.9 nautical miles. That is the shortest path over the Earth's surface, computed with the haversine formula on a sphere with the mean Earth radius, 6,371.0 km. A course held on one compass bearing (a rhumb line) would be 73.5 miles, practically the same at this range.

Measurements

Miles
73.5
Kilometers
118.3
Nautical miles
63.9
Bearing from Pompano Beach
347.7° NNW
Bearing arriving at Port St. Lucie
347.6°
Bearing from Port St. Lucie
167.6° SSE

Halfway between Pompano Beach and Port St. Lucie

The great-circle midpoint is at 26.761157, -80.260518 (26°45'40.16"N 80°15'37.87"W). The nearest incorporated place of 1,000 or more people is Westlake, FL, with 7,664 residents, 2.5 miles from the midpoint. To find towns near the midpoint of any two places, use the halfway tool.

Time zones and daylight

Both use America/New_York, so there is no time difference. On June 21, Pompano Beach gets 13 h 47 min of daylight and Port St. Lucie 13 h 52 min; on December 21, 10 h 30 min and 10 h 25 min. Port St. Lucie is 1.04° farther north, so it has the longer summer days and the shorter winter ones.

Population compared

Port St. Lucie has 2.2 times the population of Pompano Beach. From July 2020 to July 2024, Pompano Beach changed by +5.5% and Port St. Lucie by +25.0%. Both are in Florida.

  1. 01Pompano Beach, FL118,104 (+5.5%)
  2. 02Port St. Lucie, FL258,575 (+25.0%)
July 1, 2024 population and change since July 2020, Census Vintage 2024.

Questions people ask

How far is Pompano Beach from Port St. Lucie?

73.5 miles, 118.3 km or 63.9 nautical miles along the great circle between the two Census internal points. Road distance is longer.

Which direction is Port St. Lucie from Pompano Beach?

NNW. The great-circle path leaves Pompano Beach on a bearing of 347.7° and arrives at Port St. Lucie on 347.6°. The return trip starts on 167.6°.

What is halfway between Pompano Beach and Port St. Lucie?

The midpoint is at 26.761157, -80.260518. The nearest incorporated place of 1,000+ is Westlake, FL, 2.5 miles from it.

Is there a time difference between Pompano Beach and Port St. Lucie?

Both use America/New_York, so there is no time difference.

Which is bigger, Pompano Beach or Port St. Lucie?

Port St. Lucie, with 258,575 residents in July 2024 against 118,104 for Pompano Beach, 2.2 times as many.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census 2024 Gazetteer internal points and Vintage 2024 estimates; time zones from Open-Meteo.

  1. 01Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  2. 02Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  3. 03SunCalc library (Vladimir Agafonkin), algorithms after Jean Meeus
  4. 04IANA time zone database (clock times and daylight saving rules)

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