How to Say "A Mile Away" in Spanish

a una milla de distancia

/a una miʝa de distanθja/from spelling rules

The English phrase "a mile away" is translated into Spanish as a una milla de distancia.

This phrase is used to describe being at a distance of one mile from a specific place.

What does it mean word for word?

Literally, the phrase translates to "at a mile of distance".

You can shorten the phrase to a una milla de when it is immediately followed by a specific location.

/a una miʝa de distanθja/

If you use the phrase to describe something very far away in a figurative sense, such as 'I can see trouble a mile away', a Spanish speaker might find it odd. They would more likely use an idiom like a leguas to express a vast, non-literal distance.
The word milla comes from the Latin word for 'thousand' because a Roman mile was measured as one thousand paces.
Because the metric system is so dominant, using a una milla de distancia in a non-US Spanish-speaking country can sound like a line from a dubbed American movie.

Si buscas la oficina de correos, está a una milla de distancia de aquí.
If you're looking for the post office, it's a mile away from here.
No, está a una milla de aquí.
No, it's a mile away.
La gasolinera está a una milla de distancia.
The gas station is a mile away.
Mi casa queda a una milla de distancia de aquí.
My house is a mile away from here.
El parque se encuentra a una milla de distancia.
The park is located a mile away.

Mateo and Elena are walking in a park.

Sources

IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
Word origins: Wiktionary entries a, de, distancia, milla, una, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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