Distance from Cairo to New York City
Flying the shortest possible route, New York City lies 9,022 km (5,606 miles, 4,871 nautical miles) from Cairo — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,022 km · 5,606 mi · 4,871 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → New York City
- 312° (NW)
- Initial bearing New York City → Cairo
- 58° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 16 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · New York City UTC-04:00 (-7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 401 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
- New York City
- 40.7143, -74.0060
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:00 UTC / 00:05 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.