Distance from Cairo to Los Angeles
Cairo (Egypt) and Los Angeles (United States) are 12,199 km apart — that's 7,580 miles or 6,587 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,199 km · 7,580 mi · 6,587 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Los Angeles
- 333° (NNW)
- Initial bearing Los Angeles → Cairo
- 28° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 15 h 01 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+02:00 · Los Angeles UTC-08:00 (-10 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 605 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
- 04:15 UTC / 15:04 UTC
- Los Angeles
- 34.0522, -118.2437
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 14:20 UTC / 00:55 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.