Distance from Cairo to Ho Chi Minh City
Cairo (Egypt) and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) are 8,009 km apart — that's 4,976 miles or 4,324 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,009 km · 4,976 mi · 4,324 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Ho Chi Minh City
- 88° (E)
- Initial bearing Ho Chi Minh City → Cairo
- 298° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 05 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Ho Chi Minh City UTC+07:00 (+4 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 275 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
- Ho Chi Minh City
- 10.8230, 106.6296
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:44 UTC / 11:16 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.