Distance from Cairo to Shenzhen
Cairo (Egypt) and Shenzhen (China) are 8,120 km apart — that's 5,045 miles or 4,384 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,120 km · 5,045 mi · 4,384 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Shenzhen
- 73° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shenzhen → Cairo
- 296° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 13 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Shenzhen UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 331 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
- Shenzhen
- 22.5455, 114.0683
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:13 UTC / 10:21 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.