Distance from Cairo to Mexico City
Cairo (Egypt) and Mexico City (Mexico) are 12,368 km apart — that's 7,685 miles or 6,678 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,368 km · 7,685 mi · 6,678 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Mexico City
- 310° (NW)
- Initial bearing Mexico City → Cairo
- 45° (NE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 15 h 13 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Mexico City UTC-06:00 (-9 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 537 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
- Mexico City
- 19.4285, -99.1277
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 12:16 UTC / 01:10 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.