Distance from Buenos Aires to Cairo
Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Cairo (Egypt) are 11,815 km apart — that's 7,342 miles or 6,380 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,815 km · 7,342 mi · 6,380 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Cairo
- 64° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Cairo → Buenos Aires
- 239° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 34 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Cairo UTC+03:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 358 min — the sun rises later in Buenos Aires
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
- Buenos Aires
- -34.6131, -58.3772
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:42 UTC / 21:51 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.