Distance from Cairo to Madrid
Flying the shortest possible route, Madrid lies 3,351 km (2,082 miles, 1,809 nautical miles) from Cairo — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 3,351 km · 2,082 mi · 1,809 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Madrid
- 300° (WNW)
- Initial bearing Madrid → Cairo
- 99° (E)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 4 h 36 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+02:00 · Madrid UTC+01:00 (-1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 158 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
- Madrid
- 40.4165, -3.7026
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 06:53 UTC / 17:06 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.