Distance from Cairo to Kinshasa
The great-circle distance between Cairo, Egypt and Kinshasa, DR Congo is 4,184 km (2,600 mi · 2,259 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 4,184 km · 2,600 mi · 2,259 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → Kinshasa
- 207° (SSW)
- Initial bearing Kinshasa → Cairo
- 23° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 5 h 35 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · Kinshasa UTC+01:00 (-2 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 108 min — the sun rises earlier 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
- Kinshasa
- -4.3276, 15.3136
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:07 UTC / 17:04 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.