Distance from Cairo to Hong Kong
Flying the shortest possible route, Hong Kong lies 8,143 km (5,060 miles, 4,397 nautical miles) from Cairo — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,143 km · 5,060 mi · 4,397 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Hong Kong
- 74° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Hong Kong → Cairo
- 296° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 14 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Hong Kong UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 320 min — the sun rises later in Cairo
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
- Cairo
- 30.0626, 31.2497
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:19 UTC / 16:44 UTC
- Hong Kong
- 22.2783, 114.1747
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:59 UTC / 11:01 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.