Nearest port finder

Find the seaports nearest a factory, warehouse or customer. Pick a country and a town, use your current location, or enter coordinates.

How it is calculated

Ports come from the World Port Index, the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's list of about 3,000 seaports with their positions and harbor sizes. Towns and cities come from UN/LOCODE, the United Nations code list for trade locations, whose positions are given to the nearest minute (about 1.8 km).

Distances are straight lines over the Earth's surface (great-circle distance on a sphere of mean radius 6,371 km), not road, rail or sailing distances, and the nearest port is not always the one with the right service, depth or customs office for your cargo. Harbor size is the World Port Index's own rating of the port.

"Use my location" asks your browser for your position. It is used only on this page, to measure distances, and is not sent to us.

Sources

World Port Index (Pub. 150), U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
UN/LOCODE code list, UNECE

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