Distance from Cairo to Tokyo
The great-circle distance between Cairo, Egypt and Tokyo, Japan is 9,562 km (5,942 mi · 5,163 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,562 km · 5,942 mi · 5,163 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Tokyo
- 51° (NE)
- Initial bearing Tokyo → Cairo
- 305° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 54 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+02:00 · Tokyo UTC+09:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 425 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
- Tokyo
- 35.6895, 139.6917
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:10 UTC / 07:41 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.