Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (P), Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B).
Vagrant to Antigua And Barbuda, Jamaica, United Kingdom.
Breeds southern Canada (from Alberta and extreme eastern British Columbia east to south-eastern Quebec and New Brunswick, possibly also Nova Scotia), southern in northern USA to northern North Dakota, northern Minnesota, northern Michigan, northern New York and Maine. Migrates to Central America (extreme southern Mexico, in Chiapas and Yucatán, south to central Panama).
 
Population
Estimated population is 4,000,000 (2010).
Philadelphia Vireo (Vireo philadelphicus) [XC420811]
by id from Division No. 6, Subd. D (near Bishop's Falls), Division No. 6, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (song)
Philadelphia Vireo (Vireo philadelphicus) [XC736425]
by Michael Hurben from Rene Brunelle Provincial Park, Moonbeam, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Sometimes placed in a separate genus, Melodivireo. Most closely related to Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus). One report of hybridization with Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) in south-eastern Canada (Quebec).