Distance from Cairo to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Cairo, Egypt and Shanghai, China is 8,352 km (5,190 mi · 4,510 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,352 km · 5,190 mi · 4,510 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Shanghai
- 62° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Cairo
- 296° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 29 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 363 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
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:16 UTC / 10:46 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.