Flight Time from Los Angeles (LAX) to Cairo (CAI)

Non-stop, the LAX–CAI sector prices out at 15.02 hours — 12,201 km at 850 km/h plus 40 minutes of taxi, climb and approach. Model it before booking: one stop ≈ 17.5 h total, two stops ≈ 21.5 h, per the slider above.

At 12,201 km, crew and aircraft rotation limits start to shape schedules — expect either a genuine non-stop or a single well-placed technical stop rather than casual connections. The clock moves 10 h forward (UTC−8 → UTC+2), so a morning departure can land well into the local evening.

Flexible-flier trick: price LAX against CAI and then against each nearby field below — secondary endpoints within 700 km sometimes clear the fare by a full cabin class. From LAX, reaching SSH instead takes about 1.1 h — less airborne time than the 15.02 h non-stop, and the surface leg into Cairo still has to be won back.

Where a matching calculator page exists (LAX → SSH, LAX → TLV among them) the links are in the Related list below. Ground transfer from the alternative airport back into Cairo is the catch for arrivals off the LAX service: the 383 km back-offset is time you must win back in fare savings.

A 10:00 departure works out to roughly 11:01 on the clock in Cairo — the 15.02 h airborne leg plus the UTC−8 → UTC+2 shift. Budget the ground side too: a standard day runs $79 in Cairo versus $268 in Los Angeles (hotel, three meals, two transit rides), so the arrival city sets the trip's marginal cost.

A $188 per-day gap favors staying longer in Cairo and moving on from Los Angeles quickly. With 10 hours gained eastbound, the 12,201 km out to Cairo ends in a serious jet-lag bill — plan a quiet first day.