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Route · Middle East and the Gulf hubs

JED Jeddah ⇄ CAI Cairo

King Abdulaziz International Airport (Saudi Arabia) and Cairo International Airport (Egypt): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance1,216 km756 mi657 nautical miles
JED → CAI2 h 30 minestimated block time
CAI → JED2 h 20 minestimated block time
Clock change−1 hCairo vs Jeddah, today
Great-circle route from Jeddah (JED) to Cairo (CAI)JEDJeddahCAICairo
The shortest path over the Earth’s surface (great circle), drawn on a Natural Earth projection. Real flight paths bend around weather, winds and closed airspace.

Flight time each way

JED → CAI

2 h 30 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 322° (NW).

Leave Jeddah Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Cairo Sat 7 Nov, 11:30 local.

CAI → JED

2 h 20 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 139° (SE).

Leave Cairo Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Jeddah Sat 7 Nov, 13:20 local.

The two directions differ by 8 minutes in our estimate: this route is short, so the wind has little effect on the total. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance1,216 km · 756 mi · 657 nmi
Initial heading322° (NW) from JED; 139° (SE) from CAI
Farthest from the equator30.1°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip6% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

JEDAsia/Riyadh — UTC+3 now; UTC+3 all year (no daylight saving time)
CAIAfrica/Cairo — UTC+2 now; UTC+2 standard time, UTC+3 during daylight saving time
DifferenceCairo is 1 hour behind Jeddah today; −1 h in January and ±0 h in July because daylight saving time starts and ends on different dates (or not at all).

Jet lag, flying JED → CAI. Your body clock has to move 1 hour later, like a westward trip. A shift this small rarely causes much jet lag; most people feel normal within a day or so. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

JED King Abdulaziz International AirportJeddah, Saudi Arabia · longest runway 13,123 ft4,000 m CAI Cairo International AirportCairo, Egypt · longest runway 13,124 ft4,000 m

More routes from JED and CAI

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Need a different pair? The flight-time calculator works for any two of 3,245 airports. Not covered: which airlines fly this route, schedules, fares and live status — that data is proprietary and we don’t guess it.

Photos on airport pages are credited there. Estimates are rounded to 5 minutes; typical error about 13 minutes (validation).