Distance from Cairo to Chengdu
Cairo (Egypt) and Chengdu (China) are 6,851 km apart — that's 4,257 miles or 3,699 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 6,851 km · 4,257 mi · 3,699 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Chengdu
- 69° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Chengdu → Cairo
- 290° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 8 h 43 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Chengdu UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 292 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
- 03:19 UTC / 16:44 UTC
- Chengdu
- 30.6667, 104.0667
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:26 UTC / 11:54 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.