✈ CAI → ICN
10H 47M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Cairo to Seoul
From Cairo International (CAI), Egypt Africa → Incheon (ICN), South Korea Asia
↔ Flying the other way? Seoul → Cairo
How long is the flight from Cairo to Seoul?
A nonstop flight from Cairo (CAI) to Seoul (ICN) takes about 10 hours 47 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,239 miles (8,431 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 47m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,239 mi
8,431 km · great-circle
Avg speed
782 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Cairo timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Cairo
Seoul timezone
UTC+9
Asia/Seoul
Time difference
+6h
6 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~6d
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 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 Asia
Flights to Seoul
Nearest origins
- Shanghai → Seoul
- Osaka → Seoul
- Beijing → Seoul
- Tokyo → Seoul
- Taipei → Seoul
- Hong Kong → Seoul
- Manila → Seoul
- Bangkok → Seoul
- Kuala Lumpur → Seoul
- Singapore → Seoul
Long-haul to Seoul
- Buenos Aires → Seoul
- Santiago → Seoul
- São Paulo → Seoul
- Rio de Janeiro → Seoul
- Cape Town → Seoul
- Cancun → Seoul
- Miami → Seoul
- Johannesburg → Seoul
- Mexico City → Seoul
- Atlanta → Seoul