Distance between Cairo and Paris (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Cairo (Egypt) and Paris (France) is 3,209 km (1,994 miles), as the crow flies, measured from one city centre to the other. It is the shortest path over the Earth's surface; any road between them is longer.
Straight-line distance
3,209 km
1,994 miles · straight line
Heading from Cairo
319° (northwest)
initial compass bearing to Paris
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~4 h
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
CairoParisThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Cairo to Paris at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 3,209 km (1,994 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Cairo
- 319° (northwest) to Paris
- Heading from Paris
- 120° (east-southeast) to Cairo
- Midpoint
- 40.3470° N, 18.8093° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 4 h in the air at a cruising speed of 800 km/h along the straight line. Take-off, landing, the real flight path and any stops add more.
- Cairo, Egypt
- 30.0626° N, 31.2497° E (city centre)
- Paris, France
- 48.8534° N, 2.3488° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Cairo
- Cairo to Istanbul1,235 km
- Cairo to Rome2,130 km
- Cairo to Dubai2,430 km
- Cairo to Berlin2,891 km
- Cairo to Barcelona2,894 km
- Cairo to Amsterdam3,282 km
Other distances from Paris
- Paris to London344 km
- Paris to Amsterdam431 km
- Paris to Barcelona830 km
- Paris to Berlin878 km
- Paris to Madrid1,052 km
- Paris to Rome1,107 km
Questions
Is 3,209 km (1,994 miles) the driving distance from Cairo to Paris?
No. 3,209 km (1,994 miles) is the straight-line distance between the two city centres, as the crow flies. A road route is always longer, because roads bend around terrain and water, and MapGO does not measure driving distance or travel time.
How is the distance between Cairo and Paris measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Cairo's centre (30.0626° N, 31.2497° E) to Paris's (48.8534° N, 2.3488° E). This is what "straight-line distance" and "as the crow flies" mean on a globe. On a flat map the line can look curved.
How accurate is this distance?
Within about 0.5% for the two centre points. The figure treats the Earth as a sphere (the haversine formula), while the real Earth is slightly flattened, which shifts a long straight-line distance by up to about 0.5%. Measuring from another part of either city changes it more, since a large city can be tens of kilometres across.
Computed by MapGO from each city's centre point (GeoNames) with the haversine formula. All distances on this page are straight lines over the Earth's surface, not road distances.