Florida

Distance from Port St. Lucie to West Palm Beach

Straight-line distance

40.3mi

Port St. Lucie, FL and West Palm Beach, FL are 40.3 miles (64.9 km) apart in a straight line. From Port St. Lucie, the shortest path starts out heading SSE (156°).

kilometers
64.9
nautical miles
35.1
heading from Port St. Lucie
156° SSE
heading from West Palm Beach
337° NNW
Port St. LucieWest Palm Beach

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

How far Port St. Lucie is from West Palm Beach

The great-circle distance between the Census internal points of Port St. Lucie and West Palm Beach is 40.3 miles, 64.9 km or 35.1 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 40.3 miles, practically the same at this range.

Measurements

Miles
40.3
Kilometers
64.9
Nautical miles
35.1
Bearing from Port St. Lucie
156.4° SSE
Bearing arriving at West Palm Beach
156.6°
Bearing from West Palm Beach
336.6° NNW

Halfway between Port St. Lucie and West Palm Beach

The great-circle midpoint is at 27.012910, -80.257339 (27°00'46.48"N 80°15'26.42"W). The nearest incorporated place of 1,000 or more people is Tequesta, FL, with 6,285 residents, 9.4 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, Port St. Lucie gets 13 h 52 min of daylight and West Palm Beach 13 h 49 min; on December 21, 10 h 25 min and 10 h 28 min. Port St. Lucie is 0.54° farther north, so it has the longer summer days and the shorter winter ones.

Population compared

Port St. Lucie has 2.0 times the population of West Palm Beach. From July 2020 to July 2024, Port St. Lucie changed by +25.0% and West Palm Beach by +8.7%. Both are in Florida.

  1. 01Port St. Lucie, FL258,575 (+25.0%)
  2. 02West Palm Beach, FL127,744 (+8.7%)
July 1, 2024 population and change since July 2020, Census Vintage 2024.

Questions people ask

How far is Port St. Lucie from West Palm Beach?

40.3 miles, 64.9 km or 35.1 nautical miles along the great circle between the two Census internal points. Road distance is longer.

Which direction is West Palm Beach from Port St. Lucie?

SSE. The great-circle path leaves Port St. Lucie on a bearing of 156.4° and arrives at West Palm Beach on 156.6°. The return trip starts on 336.6°.

What is halfway between Port St. Lucie and West Palm Beach?

The midpoint is at 27.012910, -80.257339. The nearest incorporated place of 1,000+ is Tequesta, FL, 9.4 miles from it.

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

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

Which is bigger, Port St. Lucie or West Palm Beach?

Port St. Lucie, with 258,575 residents in July 2024 against 127,744 for West Palm Beach, 2.0 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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