Distance from Cairo to São Paulo
The great-circle distance between Cairo, Egypt and São Paulo, Brazil is 10,222 km (6,352 mi · 5,519 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 10,222 km · 6,352 mi · 5,519 nmi
- Initial bearing Cairo → São Paulo
- 244° (WSW)
- Initial bearing São Paulo → Cairo
- 58° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 12 h 41 min
- Time zones
- Cairo UTC+03:00 · São Paulo UTC-03:00 (-6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 380 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
- São Paulo
- -23.5475, -46.6361
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:38 UTC / 20:48 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.