Michigan to Ohio

Distance from Sterling Heights to Toledo

Straight-line distance

69.4mi

Sterling Heights, MI and Toledo, OH are 69.4 miles (111.7 km) apart in a straight line. From Sterling Heights, the shortest path starts out heading SSW (204°).

kilometers
111.7
nautical miles
60.3
heading from Sterling Heights
204° SSW
heading from Toledo
24° NNE
Sterling HeightsToledo

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

How far Sterling Heights is from Toledo

The great-circle distance between the Census internal points of Sterling Heights and Toledo is 69.4 miles, 111.7 km or 60.3 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 69.4 miles, practically the same at this range.

Measurements

Miles
69.4
Kilometers
111.7
Nautical miles
60.3
Bearing from Sterling Heights
204.2° SSW
Bearing arriving at Toledo
203.9°
Bearing from Toledo
23.9° NNE

Halfway between Sterling Heights and Toledo

The great-circle midpoint is at 42.122980, -83.308096 (42°07'22.73"N 83°18'29.15"W). The nearest incorporated place of 1,000 or more people is Flat Rock, MI, with 10,249 residents, 2.6 miles from the midpoint. To find towns near the midpoint of any two places, use the halfway tool.

Time zones and daylight

Sterling Heights uses America/Detroit and Toledo uses America/New_York; Toledo is the same clock time all year. On June 21, Sterling Heights gets 15 h 19 min of daylight and Toledo 15 h 12 min; on December 21, 9 h 03 min and 9 h 09 min. Sterling Heights is 0.92° farther north, so it has the longer summer days and the shorter winter ones.

Population compared

Toledo has 2.0 times the population of Sterling Heights. From July 2020 to July 2024, Sterling Heights changed by +0.2% and Toledo by -1.7%. The trip crosses from Michigan into Ohio.

  1. 01Sterling Heights, MI134,342 (+0.2%)
  2. 02Toledo, OH265,638 (-1.7%)
July 1, 2024 population and change since July 2020, Census Vintage 2024.

Questions people ask

How far is Sterling Heights from Toledo?

69.4 miles, 111.7 km or 60.3 nautical miles along the great circle between the two Census internal points. Road distance is longer.

Which direction is Toledo from Sterling Heights?

SSW. The great-circle path leaves Sterling Heights on a bearing of 204.2° and arrives at Toledo on 203.9°. The return trip starts on 23.9°.

What is halfway between Sterling Heights and Toledo?

The midpoint is at 42.122980, -83.308096. The nearest incorporated place of 1,000+ is Flat Rock, MI, 2.6 miles from it.

Is there a time difference between Sterling Heights and Toledo?

Sterling Heights uses America/Detroit and Toledo uses America/New_York; Toledo is the same clock time all year.

Which is bigger, Sterling Heights or Toledo?

Toledo, with 265,638 residents in July 2024 against 134,342 for Sterling Heights, 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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