Distance from Cairo to Seoul
Cairo (Egypt) and Seoul (South Korea) are 8,484 km apart — that's 5,271 miles or 4,581 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,484 km · 5,271 mi · 4,581 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Seoul
- 54° (NE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Cairo
- 298° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 38 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 397 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
- Seoul
- 37.5660, 126.9784
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:42 UTC / 10:35 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.