✈ CAI → EDI
5H 27M, 2,456 MI. ONE MOVIE. ONE NAP. ONE QUESTIONABLE MEAL.
Flight from Cairo to Edinburgh
From Cairo International (CAI), Egypt Africa → Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United Kingdom Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Edinburgh → Cairo
How long is the flight from Cairo to Edinburgh?
A nonstop flight from Cairo (CAI) to Edinburgh (EDI) takes about 5 hours 27 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 2,456 miles (3,953 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
5h 27m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
2,456 mi
3,953 km · great-circle
Avg speed
725 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Cairo timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Cairo
Edinburgh timezone
UTC+1
Europe/London
Time difference
-2h
2 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~1.4d
Westward — easier
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 Cairo
Nearest destinations
- Cairo → Tel Aviv
- Cairo → Athens
- Cairo → Istanbul
- Cairo → Bucharest
- Cairo → Doha
- Cairo → Rome
- Cairo → Budapest
- Cairo → Vienna
- Cairo → Abu Dhabi
- Cairo → Dubai
Long-haul from Cairo
- 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
More flights to Europe
Flights to Edinburgh
Nearest origins
- Manchester → Edinburgh
- Dublin → Edinburgh
- London → Edinburgh
- Amsterdam → Edinburgh
- Brussels → Edinburgh
- Paris → Edinburgh
- Oslo → Edinburgh
- Copenhagen → Edinburgh
- Frankfurt → Edinburgh
- Berlin → Edinburgh
Long-haul to Edinburgh
- Auckland → Edinburgh
- Melbourne → Edinburgh
- Sydney → Edinburgh
- Bali (Denpasar) → Edinburgh
- Santiago → Edinburgh
- Buenos Aires → Edinburgh
- Singapore → Edinburgh
- Kuala Lumpur → Edinburgh
- Manila → Edinburgh
- Cape Town → Edinburgh