Panama Canal Does Not Connect San Francisco and Jupiter, Florida

The Panama Canal links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the Isthmus of Panama in Central America. San Francisco is on the U.S. West Coast; Jupiter, Florida is on the East Coast. The canal does not connect these two U.S. cities directly. A ship from SF to Jupiter would transit the canal, but the overland distance between the cities is irrelevant to the canal's function.