Distance from Cairo to Delhi
Flying the shortest possible route, Delhi lies 4,429 km (2,752 miles, 2,391 nautical miles) from Cairo — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 4,429 km · 2,752 mi · 2,391 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Delhi
- 80° (E)
- Initial bearing Delhi → Cairo
- 284° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 5 h 52 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Delhi UTC+05:30 (+2.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 182 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
- Delhi
- 28.6519, 77.2315
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 00:17 UTC / 13:38 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.