Weekend getaways near you from major US, India, and global cities, ranked by real one-way drive time and what the weekend actually costs.
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Twenty weekend getaways from Washington, DC, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Annapolis is 50 minutes out; Lewisburg is the four-hour far edge of a weekend.
Twenty-five weekend getaways from Seattle, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Snoqualmie Falls is 30 minutes out; Mount Rainier is 90; Victoria is a ferry and a passport away.
Twenty-four weekend getaways from New York City, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Cold Spring is 80 minutes up the Hudson; Portland, Maine is the far edge of a long weekend.
Twenty weekend getaways from Los Angeles, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Malibu is 40 minutes up the coast; San Francisco is the six-hour far edge of a weekend.
Sixteen weekend getaways from Las Vegas, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. St. George is an hour and fifty out; Santa Barbara, five and a half hours to the coast, is the far edge of a weekend.
Fifteen weekend getaways from Dallas, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Waco and Glen Rose are 90 minutes out; the Caverns of Sonora are the far edge at five hours.
Nineteen weekend getaways from Chicago, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Chesterton and the Indiana Dunes are 55 minutes out; Lexington's horse country is the 5.8-hour far edge of a weekend.
Twenty-one weekend getaways from Boston, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Gloucester is 50 minutes out; Cape May and Alexandria Bay hold the six-hour far edge of a weekend.
Twenty-two weekend getaways from Atlanta, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Dahlonega is 70 minutes up in the gold hills; Mount Pleasant, across the river from Charleston, is the far edge of a long weekend.
Twenty weekend getaways from Vancouver, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two in Canadian dollars. Squamish is 55 minutes up the Sea-to-Sky; Tofino, 5.2 hours with the ferry, is the far storm-coast edge.
Twenty-one weekend getaways from Tampa, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Three sit 35 minutes out on the Gulf; Islamorada, 5.2 hours down the Overseas Highway, is the far edge.
Sixteen weekend getaways from San Diego, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Temecula wine country is an hour out, Las Vegas is the five-hour far edge, and Baja's Valle de Guadalupe undercuts them all.
Twenty-two weekend getaways from Portland, Oregon, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Corbett and the gorge waterfalls are 30 minutes out; Joseph and the Wallowas are the 5.4-hour far edge.
Twenty-one weekend getaways from Pittsburgh, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Ligonier is 65 minutes out; New River Gorge is the headline addition; New York is the six-hour far edge.
Twenty weekend getaways from Philadelphia, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Kennett Square and mushroom country sit under an hour out; Newport's Gilded Age mansions are the 4.7-hour far edge.
Sixteen weekend getaways from Ottawa, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two in Canadian dollars. Montebello is 55 minutes east; Baie-Saint-Paul in Charlevoix is the five-and-a-half-hour far edge.
Twenty weekend getaways from Nashville, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Bowling Green is 70 minutes up the interstate; St. Louis and Asheville hold the far edge at under five hours.
Twenty-one weekend getaways from Houston, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Galveston is under an hour out; New Orleans and the Caverns of Sonora hold the far edge.
Eleven weekend getaways from Denver, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Boulder is 40 minutes out; Santa Fe, five hours and forty minutes south, is the far edge of the list.
Fifteen weekend getaways from Calgary, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two in Canadian dollars. Cochrane is 35 minutes out, the Rockies start at Kananaskis an hour west, and Jasper marks the far edge at 4.6 hours.
Seventeen weekend getaways from Brisbane, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two in Australian dollars. Surfers Paradise is an hour out; Tenterfield, three hours twenty-five over the border, is the far edge.
Twenty-four weekend getaways from Austin, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two. Georgetown, Dripping Springs, and Lockhart are about 35 minutes out; Paris and its cowboy-hat Eiffel Tower mark the 4.5-hour far edge.
Twenty-one escapes from Toronto, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two in Canadian dollars. Niagara-on-the-Lake is an hour and ten minutes out, the Muskoka steamships under two hours; Stowe and the Adirondacks are long weekends across the border.
Twenty weekend getaways from Sydney, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two in Australian dollars. Katoomba is 85 minutes out; Batemans Bay holds the far edge at three hours fifty.
Fifteen weekend getaways from Singapore, each with a verified one-way travel time and an honest all-in cost for two in Singapore dollars. Pontian is 80 minutes over the Causeway, Ipoh is the 6.2-hour long-weekend edge, and four island escapes cover the ferry and short-flight tier.
Nineteen weekend getaways from Mumbai, each with a verified one-way drive time and an all-in cost for two in rupees. Matheran is 1.1 hours to the base of its car-free hill; Ganpatipule, the Konkan temple beach, is the 6.5-hour far edge.
Twenty-four weekend getaways from London, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two in pounds. Windsor is 50 minutes out; Robin Hoods Bay, the 5.2-hour far edge of the list, is a Yorkshire-coast haul.
Twenty-four escapes from Dublin, each with a verified one-way drive time, an honest all-in cost for two in euro, and the month worth going. Glendalough is 70 minutes out; Portmagee, the Skellig gateway, is the far edge at four hours fifty.
Twenty-one weekend getaways from Delhi, each with a verified one-way drive time and an honest all-in cost for two in rupees. Manesar is 90 minutes out, Agra is under four hours, and Amritsar's Golden Temple is the seven-hour far edge.
Twenty-three escapes from Bangalore, each with a real one-way drive time, an all-in weekend cost for two in rupees, and the month worth going. Sorted by road time, led by the tiger country no other Indian metro can match.