Distance from Buenos Aires to Cairo
Flying the shortest possible route, Cairo lies 11,815 km (7,342 miles, 6,380 nautical miles) from Buenos Aires — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,815 km · 7,342 mi · 6,380 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Cairo
- 64° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Cairo → Buenos Aires
- 239° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 34 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Cairo UTC+03:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 443 min — the sun rises later in Buenos Aires
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
- Buenos Aires
- -34.6131, -58.3772
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:42 UTC / 21:18 UTC
- Cairo
- 30.0626, 31.2497
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:19 UTC / 16:44 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.