Distance from Barcelona to Cairo
The great-circle distance between Barcelona, Spain and Cairo, Egypt is 2,894 km (1,798 mi · 1,562 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 2,894 km · 1,798 mi · 1,562 nmi
- Initial bearing Barcelona → Cairo
- 106° (ESE)
- Initial bearing Cairo → Barcelona
- 304° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 4 h 04 min
- Time zones
- Barcelona UTC+02:00 · Cairo UTC+03:00 (+1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 116 min — the sun rises later in Barcelona
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Barcelona
- 41.3888, 2.1590
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:40 UTC / 17:49 UTC
- Cairo
- 30.0626, 31.2497
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:44 UTC / 15:52 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.