Tukuk-OS🌆 Cairo
Egypt · Africa · 30.04°N, 31.24°E
Quick facts
| Country | Egypt |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Africa |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 30.04°N, 31.24°E · view on map |
Cairo is in Egypt, a country in Africa. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Cairo’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Cairo sits on the Earth
At 30.04° north of the equator, Cairo is about 3,340 km from the equator itself and 6,667 km from its nearest pole — and that puts it in the subtropics, where summers run hot and how mild the winter feels depends heavily on the nearest sea. Latitude is only the sky’s address, of course: altitude, oceans and winds write the actual weather, which is why two cities on the same parallel can need overcoats in one place and sun hats in the other. The numbers on this page come straight from the town’s own coordinates.
Two consequences of that latitude anyone can test. On the equinox the midday sun stands 60.0° above the horizon here (straight up at the equator, lower the further you go). And because the Earth is a sphere turning once a day, a point at this latitude is carried around its axis at roughly 1,449 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Cairo sees its longest day lasts about 13.9 hours of daylight and its shortest about 10.1.
Nearest cities on our list: Alexandria (180.5 km to the northwest), Aqaba (375.8 km to the east), Petra (405.8 km to the east), Tel Aviv (406.4 km to the northeast). Every profile here carries the same arithmetic, so the distances between any two of them can be checked by opening both pages.
The other side of the world: a straight line through the centre of the Earth from Cairo emerges at 30.04°S, 148.76°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Nukualofa, about 2,822 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.