Distance from Cairo to Melbourne
Cairo (Egypt) and Melbourne (Australia) are 13,966 km apart — that's 8,678 miles or 7,541 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 13,966 km · 8,678 mi · 7,541 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Melbourne
- 117° (ESE)
- Initial bearing Melbourne → Cairo
- 283° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 17 h 05 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Melbourne UTC+10:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 364 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
- Melbourne
- -37.8140, 144.9633
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:15 UTC / 07:39 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.