Distance from Cairo to Toronto
The great-circle distance between Cairo, Egypt and Toronto, Canada is 9,206 km (5,720 mi · 4,971 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,206 km · 5,720 mi · 4,971 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Toronto
- 317° (NW)
- Initial bearing Toronto → Cairo
- 55° (NE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 29 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+02:00 · Toronto UTC-05:00 (-7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 468 min — the sun rises earlier 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
- Toronto
- 43.7064, -79.3986
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 12:03 UTC / 22:01 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.