How far apart in miles are the lines of latitude?

Answer 1

AnswerThere is no standard set of "lines", and no standard distance between them.

A 'line' can be drawn at any latitude, or not.

One degree of latitude represents about 111.1 km or 69 statute miles,

regardless of how many lines are or are not drawn in it.

Answer 2

If you look at the globe, you can see that the lines of longitude come together at the poles, and if you look at them flat, they would look like sections of an orange.

Lines of latitude, however, are circles, spaced evenly apart. If you measure north or south from one degree of latitude to the next degree of latitude, each degree is 60 nautical miles and each minute of latitude is 1 nautical mile, 2026 yards. Measuring degrees from one longitude line to the next is more difficult, because 1 degree of longitude is something LESS than 1 nautical mile.

Answer 3

There is no standard set of 'lines'. Some maps and globes have lines printed every

10 degrees, some have lines printed every 15 degrees, some have lines printed

every 20 degrees, and some don't have any lines printed on them at all.

When working in this category, this contributor uses mapping software with a

line available every 0.001389 degree if I want them. To answer your question

using this set of lines, they are 507 feet apart, which is about 0.096 mile.

1 degree of latitude corresponds to about 69.1 miles, whether or not a 'line'

happens to be printed there.

Answer 4

That's like asking "What's the distance between one length and the next ?", or "What's the difference

between one weight and the next ?"

There's no list of permitted latitudes that you have to pick one from. Any two latitudes that somebody gives you,

no matter how close together they are, you can always name another latitude that's half-way between them.

Stick two pencils into the ground. If one is north or south of the other, then they have different latitudes.

And there's still another different latitude half-way between them.

Answer 5

The longest line of latitude is the equator. All lines of longitude are equal. So, the longest lines of latitude and longitude intersect at the equator.

Answer 6

All the longitude lines are half the circumference of the Earth. Only 0 degrees latitude (the equator) is the same, the rest are all shorter.

Answer 7

60 miles. Each degree of latitude is 60 nautical miles. One mile per minute.

Answer 8

Longitude lines (meridians) run north and south and measure east and west. Latitude lines (parallels) run east and west and measure north and south.

Answer 9

Lines of latitude mark distance in degrees north and south of the Equator.

Answer 10

The equator.