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title: "CAI — Cairo Airport, Cairo · Orbit"
description: "Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) serves Cairo, Egypt. 31.1 million passengers in 2025, 15 km from Cairo. Map, website and distances to 3 destinations."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/cai
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Cairo · Egypt · Africa

# CAI — Cairo

Cairo International Airport serves Cairo, Egypt, 15 km from the city centre, and sits at 30.1°N, 31.4°E. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461793)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=30.11150,31.39670)

## 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.

| To                                                     |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Istanbul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-cai) | IST | 1,264 km | 2h 04m    |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cai-to-dxb)    | DXB | 2,417 km | 3h 30m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-cai)   | LHR | 3,533 km | 4h 53m    |

[Distance from CAI to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=CAI&to=LHR) [Map a trip from CAI →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=CAI-LHR)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (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.

[Measure CAI to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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