✈ BOS → CAI
11H 8M IN A METAL TUBE. 5,418 MILES. EARN THE LEG.
Flight from Boston to Cairo
From Logan (BOS), USA North America → Cairo International (CAI), Egypt Africa
↔ Flying the other way? Cairo → Boston
How long is the flight from Boston to Cairo?
A nonstop flight from Boston (BOS) to Cairo (CAI) takes about 11 hours 8 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,418 miles (8,720 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 8m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,418 mi
8,720 km · great-circle
Avg speed
783 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Boston timezone
UTC-4
America/New_York
Cairo timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Cairo
Time difference
+7h
7 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~7d
Eastward — worse
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Boston
Nearest destinations
- Boston → New York
- Boston → Toronto
- Boston → Chicago
- Boston → Atlanta
- Boston → Miami
- Boston → Dallas
- Boston → Cancun
- Boston → Mexico City
- Boston → Las Vegas
- Boston → Seattle
Long-haul from Boston
- Boston → Melbourne
- Boston → Sydney
- Boston → Bali (Denpasar)
- Boston → Singapore
- Boston → Kuala Lumpur
- Boston → Auckland
- Boston → Bangkok
- Boston → Manila
- Boston → Hong Kong
- Boston → Johannesburg
More flights to Africa
Flights to Cairo
Nearest origins
- Tel Aviv → Cairo
- Athens → Cairo
- Istanbul → Cairo
- Bucharest → Cairo
- Doha → Cairo
- Rome → Cairo
- Budapest → Cairo
- Vienna → Cairo
- Abu Dhabi → Cairo
- Dubai → Cairo
Long-haul to Cairo
- Auckland → Cairo
- Sydney → Cairo
- Melbourne → Cairo
- Santiago → Cairo
- Mexico City → Cairo
- Los Angeles → Cairo
- San Francisco → Cairo
- Las Vegas → Cairo
- Buenos Aires → Cairo
- Cancun → Cairo