Distance from Cairo to Jakarta
The great-circle distance between Cairo, Egypt and Jakarta, Indonesia is 8,985 km (5,583 mi · 4,852 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,985 km · 5,583 mi · 4,852 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Jakarta
- 103° (ESE)
- Initial bearing Jakarta → Cairo
- 302° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 14 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+02:00 · Jakarta UTC+07:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 349 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
- 04:15 UTC / 15:04 UTC
- Jakarta
- -6.2146, 106.8451
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:26 UTC / 10:48 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.