Distance from Cairo to Jakarta
Flying the shortest possible route, Jakarta lies 8,985 km (5,583 miles, 4,852 nautical miles) from Cairo — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,985 km · 5,583 mi · 4,852 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Jakarta
- 103° (ESE)
- Initial bearing Jakarta → Cairo
- 302° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 14 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Jakarta UTC+07:00 (+4 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 256 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
- Jakarta
- -6.2146, 106.8451
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:03 UTC / 10:55 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.