✈ CAI → SFO
15H 2M, 7,459 MILES. YOUR ANCESTORS WALKED LESS THAN THIS.
Flight from Cairo to San Francisco
From Cairo International (CAI), Egypt Africa → SFO (SFO), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? San Francisco → Cairo
How long is the flight from Cairo to San Francisco?
A nonstop flight from Cairo (CAI) to San Francisco (SFO) takes about 15 hours 2 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 7,459 miles (12,004 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
15h 2m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
7,459 mi
12,004 km · great-circle
Avg speed
798 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Cairo timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Cairo
San Francisco timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Time difference
-10h
10 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~7d
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 → Las Vegas
- Cairo → Buenos Aires
- Cairo → Cancun
- Cairo → Dallas
More flights to North America
Flights to San Francisco
Nearest origins
- Los Angeles → San Francisco
- Las Vegas → San Francisco
- Seattle → San Francisco
- Vancouver → San Francisco
- Dallas → San Francisco
- Chicago → San Francisco
- Mexico City → San Francisco
- Atlanta → San Francisco
- Toronto → San Francisco
- Cancun → San Francisco
Long-haul to San Francisco
- Johannesburg → San Francisco
- Cape Town → San Francisco
- Nairobi → San Francisco
- Kuala Lumpur → San Francisco
- Singapore → San Francisco
- Mumbai → San Francisco
- Bali (Denpasar) → San Francisco
- Abu Dhabi → San Francisco
- Dubai → San Francisco
- Doha → San Francisco