Geo & Travel

Geo Distance API

Compute the great-circle distance between two coordinates in kilometers or miles.

Request Headers

Name	Required	Description
`X-RapidAPI-Key`	required	Your RapidAPI key. Get one free.
`X-RapidAPI-Host`	required	`geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com`

Endpoints

GET /v1/geo/distance

Great-circle distance between two coordinates

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default	Constraints
`lat1`	number	required	—	-90-90
`lat2`	number	required	—	-90-90
`lon1`	number	required	—	-180-180
`lon2`	number	required	—	-180-180
`unit`	string	optional	km	matches km\|mi

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com/v1/geo/distance?lat1=0&lat2=0&lon1=0&lon2=0' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com'

const url = "https://geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com/v1/geo/distance?lat1=0&lat2=0&lon1=0&lon2=0";
const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com/v1/geo/distance"

querystring = {"lat1": 0, "lat2": 0, "lon1": 0, "lon2": 0}

headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())

GET /v1/geo/distance/units

List all supported distance units.

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com/v1/geo/distance/units' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com'

const url = "https://geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com/v1/geo/distance/units";
const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com/v1/geo/distance/units"

headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "geo-distance.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

Interactive Example

geo-distance

$ GET /v1/geo/distance?lat1=51.5074&lon1=-0.1278&lat2=48.8566&lon2=2.3522
{"distance":343.56,"unit":"km"}

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