

how far and fast does Santa has to travel?

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  • 1 decade ago
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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    How Fast Does Santa Travel

  • bpiguy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yeah, I figured this out once, but my calculations are still packed with the Christmas gear.

    Anyway, as we all know, he starts & stops at the North Pole. What we might not know is that he has a full 36 hours, and maybe a bit more, to get his job done. He generally makes his deliveries from about 8 p.m. one night until 8 a.m. a day and a half later -- hence the 36 hours -- but he's able to get his first run -- across northern Siberia -- done two or three hours earlier because it's dark very early near the Arctic Circle. Besides, that's close to home, so he returns to base to reload for the big trip.

    For his main journey, he begins in New Zealand, just west of the International Date Line. New Zealand and Australia are sort of tricky. The days are long, so parents see to it that the children are nestled snug in their beds well before sundown. The kids are used to it down there, and they follow instructions.

    After beginning in the South Pacific, Santa generally follows an "M" (or upside-down "W") pattern as he makes his way around the world. He goes north and south, always heading in an overall westerly direction.

    On a globe, you can see his route. From Australia, he island-hops through Indonesia, the Philippines, and up to Japan. Then he crosses to Korea and China, working his way down to Southeast Asia, then over to India by way of Central Asia.

    Leaving India, he zooms across the ocean to Madagascar and southern Africa, then swings north through the Middle East, loops through European Russia and Western Europe, exiting from Spain into West Africa.

    From there. it's a short jaunt over to Brazil. He goes down the east coast of South America, then up the west coast, jumping from Venezuela to Cuba to Florida. He works his way up the American east coast to Maine and Montreal, then goes diagonally down to Mexico, and up the west coast to Vancouver, British Columbia.

    Although he's always tired by the time he gets to B.C. (and so are his reindeer), he's no longer under time pressure. He's also well-fed because of all the cookies and glasses of milk he's consumed along the way.

    Northern Canada can be done leisurely just like he did in Siberia. It's always dark there, and his last stops are in Alaska, right up against the International Date Line and just a short distance from home, where he showers because his clothes are all tarnished with ashes and soot.

    It's good that this question is posted in the Geography category. I know you know that Hawaii has been left out. Well, Santa knows that too, and that's why he sends out all the Hawaiian presents a couple of weeks early, via UPS.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Santa travels in another dimension

    Source(s): Im Santa
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if santa would have to bring presents to every household, he would have to travel at the speed of light.

  • 1 decade ago

    550 mp on air with U.S. army support.

  • Phil21
    Lv 5
    4 years ago

    he uses a computer now, we takes the food and drink magically and leaves presents.

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