Distance from Beijing to Cairo
Flying the shortest possible route, Cairo lies 7,541 km (4,686 miles, 4,072 nautical miles) from Beijing — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,541 km · 4,686 mi · 4,072 nmi
- Initial bearing Beijing → Cairo
- 291° (WNW)
- Initial bearing Cairo → Beijing
- 56° (NE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 9 h 32 min
- Time zones
- Beijing UTC+08:00 · Cairo UTC+02:00 (-6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 324 min — the sun rises earlier in Beijing
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
- Beijing
- 39.9075, 116.3972
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:51 UTC / 09:07 UTC
- Cairo
- 30.0626, 31.2497
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:15 UTC / 15:04 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.