- IATA
- CAI
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- HECA
- used by air traffic control
- Passengers
- 31.1M
- in 2025
- Routes here
- 3
- in the catalogue
History & name
Cairo International Airport takes its name from Cairo and the Cairo Governorate, and lies 15 km from the city. It has three runways up to 4,000 m at an elevation of 322 feet, and handled 31.1 million passengers in 2025.
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At a glance
- Full name
- Cairo International Airport
- Serves
- Cairo, Egypt
- City centre
- 15 km from Cairo
- Passengers
- 31.1 million in 2025
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 4,000 m
- Elevation
- 322 ft (98 m)
Where it sits
30.1°N, 31.4°E puts CAI in the northern hemisphere, 3,348 km from the equator and 6,659 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 305th most northerly, which makes it the 357th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 30.1°S, 148.6°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Fa'a'ā (PPT) in French Polynesia, still 1,400 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is King Hussein (AQJ), 354 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from CAI
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 3,533 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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