Distance from Cairo to London
Cairo (Egypt) and London (United Kingdom) are 3,510 km apart — that's 2,181 miles or 1,896 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 3,510 km · 2,181 mi · 1,896 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → London
- 322° (NW)
- Initial bearing London → Cairo
- 121° (ESE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 4 h 47 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · London UTC+01:00 (-2 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 77 min — the sun rises earlier 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
- London
- 51.5085, -0.1257
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:35 UTC / 19:39 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.