Distance from Cairo to Moscow
Flying the shortest possible route, Moscow lies 2,900 km (1,802 miles, 1,566 nautical miles) from Cairo — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 2,900 km · 1,802 mi · 1,566 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Moscow
- 8° (N)
- Initial bearing Moscow → Cairo
- 193° (SSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 4 h 04 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+02:00 · Moscow UTC+03:00 (+1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 35 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
- Moscow
- 55.7520, 37.6178
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:50 UTC / 13:38 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.