Distance from Cairo to Sydney
Flying the shortest possible route, Sydney lies 14,416 km (8,958 miles, 7,784 nautical miles) from Cairo — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 14,416 km · 8,958 mi · 7,784 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Sydney
- 111° (ESE)
- Initial bearing Sydney → Cairo
- 283° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 17 h 37 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+02:00 · Sydney UTC+11:00 (+9 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 565 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
- 04:15 UTC / 15:04 UTC
- Sydney
- -33.8678, 151.2073
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 18:50 UTC / 08:30 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.