Do you live within two hours of an LDS temple?

Explore the map.

Modified

May 4, 2026

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a church that builds temples in addition to local meetinghouses. An LDS temple is different from a regular, chapel-style meetinghouse. These buildings are considered sacred, and given their importance the LDS church has tried mightily to build them up to reduce drive times for church members.

The map below shows areas within a 30-minute, 1-hour, and 2-hour drive of a continental US temple¹. Use the layer controls in the upper right to toggle time intervals and switch base maps.

Markers are colored by temple status (Dedicated, Under Construction, Announced). Markers with a dashed outline indicate temples whose location is estimated — typically Announced sites without a finalized address.

Before temples are dedicated for use by church members, there is always an open house to the public. If you ever happen to have the chance to attend an LDS temple open house event, go.

How this map was made

Temple locations: ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org, filtered to continental US sites. Temples without finalized coordinates can be added manually via data/manual/temple_location_overrides.csv and are flagged “Estimated” on the map.
30- and 60-minute drive areas: OpenRouteService isochrones computed on OpenStreetMap road data.
2-hour drive areas: computed by a self-hosted OpenRouteService Docker container running against an OpenStreetMap regional extract. Currently scoped to the Northeast US; will expand to the full continental US as the routing engine is run against larger extracts.

Footnotes

Polygons are computed per temple from OpenStreetMap road data via OpenRouteService. Drive times are estimates and do not account for traffic, construction, or tolls. Locations for recently announced temples are approximate. The 2-hour layer is currently available only for Northeast US temples; coverage will expand as the routing engine is run against larger OSM extracts.↩︎