Distance from Cairo to Mumbai
Flying the shortest possible route, Mumbai lies 4,358 km (2,708 miles, 2,353 nautical miles) from Cairo — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 4,358 km · 2,708 mi · 2,353 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Mumbai
- 96° (E)
- Initial bearing Mumbai → Cairo
- 295° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 5 h 47 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Mumbai UTC+05:30 (+2.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 166 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
- 03:44 UTC / 15:52 UTC
- Mumbai
- 19.0728, 72.8826
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 00:58 UTC / 13:05 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.