docs/api/sql/geography/Geography-Functions/ST_Distance.md

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# ST_Distance

Introduction: Returns the minimum geodesic distance between two geography objects in meters. Uses S2 geometry-to-geometry distance (S2ClosestEdgeQuery), which computes the true minimum distance between any two points on the geometries — not centroid-to-centroid. Consistent with sedona-db's implementation.

![ST_Distance on a sphere: great-circle distance between two points](../../../../image/ST_Distance_geography/ST_Distance_geography.svg "ST_Distance on a sphere: great-circle distance between two points")

Format:

`ST_Distance (A: Geography, B: Geography)`

Return type: `Double`

Since: `v1.9.1`

SQL Example

```sql
SELECT ST_Distance(
  ST_GeogFromWKT('POINT (0 0)'),
  ST_GeogFromWKT('POINT (1 1)')
);
```

Output:

```
157249.59847404022
```

The result is approximately 157 km, the great-circle distance between (0,0) and (1,1) on the WGS84 sphere.