Cairo International Airport

Cairo International Airport (CAI/HECA) is in Cairo, EG, 98 m above sea level. It has 3 runways and the longest is 4,000 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

05C23C05L23R05R23L
Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
CAI · HECA
City
Cairo
Country
EG
Coordinates
30.1115, 31.3967
Elevation
98 m · 322 ft
Time zone
Africa/Cairo
Local time now
16:52
Airspace
Cairo
Departures observed
30 · 14 arrivals
Most seen destinations
LHR, SHJ, WAW, BAH, IST

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (28)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
03:00QTR8164B77L · A7-BFRBRU
03:01MSR693B738 · SU-GDZ
03:04FAD616A20N · HZ-FAUDMM
03:11MSR697B738 · SU-GEE
03:12OMA408ZB38M · A4O-MKMCT
03:27MSC443A320 · SU-BWB
03:30MSR665B77W · SU-GDRDXB
03:44ADY425A320 · A6-AUAAUH
03:46NIA173A320 · SU-BQKSHJ
03:49LOT1CHB38M · SP-LVRWAW
03:51SUD105A320 · ST-MKW
03:55ETH453B789 · ET-AXK
04:05NMA160A320 · TC-GMB
04:13AEE931A21N · SX-NAM
04:28MSC477A320 · SU-BVP
04:37BDR685B738 · ST-BDK
04:45SVA308A333 · HZ-AQ21
04:52ITY895A21N · EI-HXBFCO
04:58MSC501A320 · SU-SKCSHJ
05:00DLH585A21N · D-AIEPFRA
05:06AFR551B789 · F-HRBBCDG
05:35MSC020E190 · SU-BVH
05:36MSR783A20N · SU-GFMLHR
05:38GFA080A20N · A9C-TGBAH
05:44NIA227A320 · SU-BQR
05:52SVA390A21N · HZ-ASAEIST
09:38AFL424B738 · RA-73115
01:35JZR742A320 · 9K-CAI

Landed (14)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
03:13MSR802A20N · SU-GFO
03:17MSR812B738 · SU-GEG
03:43GFA079A20N · A9C-TG
03:57MSR518A332 · SU-GCE
04:32MSR780A20N · SU-GFQ
04:47MSR959B77W · SU-GDP
05:09MSR967A21N · SU-GFS
05:20SVA383A333 · HZ-AQ18
05:30MSR948A359 · SU-GGI
05:45MSR986A359 · SU-GGH
05:48MSR956B789 · SU-GEW
21:54ADY431A320 · A6-ANBAUH
23:15MSR708B738 · SU-GCNAMM
23:18NIA151

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (3)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
05C/23C4,000 m · 13,123 ftasphalt45° · 225°
05R/23L4,000 m · 13,124 ftasphalt49° · 229°
05L/23R3,300 m · 10,827 ftasphalt49° · 229°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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