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Cairo vs Seattle time difference and converter

Seattle is 10 hours behind Cairo right now. Cairo sits in Egypt on Cairo; Seattle sits in United States on Los Angeles. They are roughly 10,985 km apart (6,826 mi), a flight of about 13h 55m. Cairo's metro holds around 21.7 million people; Seattle's around 4.0 million.

 

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Slot 1

00:00 / 14:00

Cairo / Seattle

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Slot 2

01:00 / 15:00

Cairo / Seattle

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Slot 3

02:00 / 16:00

Cairo / Seattle

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24-hour comparison heatmap

Each row is one hour in Cairo. Green rows are inside business hours in both cities; amber means only one side is at their desk; grey rows fall outside business hours in both.

Cairo (Cairo)
Seattle (Los Angeles)
Status
00:00
14:00
One at work
01:00
15:00
One at work
02:00
16:00
One at work
03:00
17:00
Off-hours
04:00
18:00
Off-hours
05:00
19:00
Off-hours
06:00
20:00
Off-hours
07:00
21:00
Off-hours
08:00
22:00
Off-hours
09:00
23:00
One at work
10:00
00:00
One at work
11:00
01:00
One at work
12:00
02:00
One at work
13:00
03:00
One at work
14:00
04:00
One at work
15:00
05:00
One at work
16:00
06:00
One at work
17:00
07:00
Off-hours
18:00
08:00
Off-hours
19:00
09:00
One at work
20:00
10:00
One at work
21:00
11:00
One at work
22:00
12:00
One at work
23:00
13:00
One at work

Public holidays in November 2026

Travel context

Great-circle distance

10,985 km

(6,826 mi)

Approximate flight

13h 55m

850 km/h cruise + 1h taxi/climb/descent

Jet lag

10h

Roughly 1 day to adjust per timezone crossed

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The heatmap gives you the shape of the day. If you need to convert one specific hour, say a customer call or a release window, open the converter with both cities already loaded.

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Frequently asked questions

Working between Cairo and Seattle

The difference between Cairo and Seattle is not really a number, it's a daily rhythm. Seattle is 10 hours behind Cairo on the clock today, but the lived version is that Cairo is ahead in the calendar, so by the time Seattle comes online, half of Cairo's day is already gone. That gap, more than the raw offset, is what teams have to design around.

In Cairo, the working day picks up earliest in the financial districts- Cairo's downtown core wakes early and breaks for lunch at the usual hour. The mood in Seattle is its own story: Seattle settles into the evening at the usual hour, with the local commuter pattern setting the pace. If you are scheduling between the two, the heatmap above marks the rows where both patterns line up.

Daylight saving is the other thing to keep an eye on. Egypt either observes DST or holds a fixed offset year-round; United States shifts on the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November. When the two changes are weeks apart, the offset between Cairo and Seattle is one hour off the usual for that stretch, a cliff that catches recurring calendar invites unless your calendar app rebases them automatically. Pin the meeting to a city, not an offset, and the tool handles the rest.

For travellers, the 13h 55m flight is the short version of the story. The longer one is jet lag: roughly one day of adjustment per timezone crossed, which means a trip across the 10-hour gap costs about 10 groggy days on each side. Pilots and cabin crew swear by morning sunlight and an early walk; whatever your routine, the wall-clock numbers above are the source of truth for your first morning in the new city.