  Utilising the unique location of red clump giants on colour-magnitude
diagrams obtained from various near-IR surveys, we derived specific
reddening-distance relations towards 119 Galactic novae for which independent
reddening measurements are available. Using the derived distance-extinction
relation and the independent measurements of reddening we calculated the most
likely distances for each system. We present the details of our distance
measurement technique and the results of this analysis, which yielded the
distances of 73 Galactic novae and allowed us to set lower limits on the
distances of 46 systems. We also present the reddening-distance relations
derived for each nova, which may be useful to analyze the different Galactic
components present in the line of sight.
