✈ CAI → LIS
5H 17M FROM CAIRO TO LISBON. THAT'S A WORK SHIFT.
Flight from Cairo to Lisbon
From Cairo International (CAI), Egypt Africa → Humberto Delgado (LIS), Portugal Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Lisbon → Cairo
How long is the flight from Cairo to Lisbon?
A nonstop flight from Cairo (CAI) to Lisbon (LIS) takes about 5 hours 17 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 2,366 miles (3,807 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
5h 17m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
2,366 mi
3,807 km · great-circle
Avg speed
721 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Cairo timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Cairo
Lisbon timezone
UTC+1
Europe/Lisbon
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 Lisbon
Nearest origins
- Madrid → Lisbon
- Casablanca → Lisbon
- Barcelona → Lisbon
- Paris → Lisbon
- London → Lisbon
- Dublin → Lisbon
- Milan → Lisbon
- Manchester → Lisbon
- Brussels → Lisbon
- Zurich → Lisbon
Long-haul to Lisbon
- Auckland → Lisbon
- Sydney → Lisbon
- Melbourne → Lisbon
- Bali (Denpasar) → Lisbon
- Manila → Lisbon
- Singapore → Lisbon
- Kuala Lumpur → Lisbon
- Taipei → Lisbon
- Tokyo → Lisbon
- Osaka → Lisbon