Flying from Dubai to Cairo?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from Dubai to Cairo?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from Dubai to Cairo?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Dubai → Cairo
A medium flight from United Arab Emirates to Egypt. The clock rolls back 1 hour when you land.
The city that rose from the desert
Dubai is a coastal city on the Persian Gulf that grew in a few decades into a dense spine of towers strung along a single highway. Most of what visitors come for sits near the water or that main road: the beaches, the malls, Dubai Creek, the old trading waterway, and the tallest building in the world. It is hot for much of the year and built around cars and taxis, though a driverless metro runs the length of the city. Distances look short on a map but stretch out in the heat.
Nearby airports
| 116 km / 72 mi |
Surrounding hubs
| 378 km / 235 mi | |
| 487 km / 303 mi | |
| 574 km / 357 mi |
The mother of the world
Cairo sprawls along the Nile in a metro area of more than 20 million people, one of the largest and oldest continuously inhabited urban areas on Earth, with the Pyramids of Giza visible from its western edge. The metro system doesn't yet reach the airport, although an extension is planned; taxis, ride-hailing, and buses cover the trip for now, and traffic can make it slow at peak times. Cairo's existing metro lines are some of the busiest in Africa and the Middle East, covering much of the city along the river. It runs hot and dry most of the year, with mild winters and very little rain.
Surrounding hubs
| 474 km / 295 mi | |
| 757 km / 470 mi | |
| 1,108 km / 688 mi |
Find out which side of the plane to sit on.
Pick your airports, set your departure time, and you're done.
We calculate the sun's position based on your flight path and departure time, then tell you which side of the plane gets direct sun and which stays shaded. No guessing, just math.
Enter your flight
Pick your departure and arrival airports and set your departure time at the departure airport. FlightSide estimates the duration and you can adjust it if you know the exact schedule.
We track the sun along your route
Your flight path is broken into hundreds of points. At each one we check where the sun is and which side of the plane it faces.
You get a recommendation
Which side of the plane to sit on, left or right, depending on whether you'd rather avoid the sun or enjoy it. The percentages and the map are there if you want to see why.
Want to go deeper? Accuracy, edge cases, polar routes — see the FAQ →
Notes from the product.
Small updates, route observations, and clearer explanations for how the app keeps evolving.
Type less, wait less, wonder more
Airport search now understands metro codes and old city names, FlightSide loads noticeably faster, and a new Feeling lucky button chooses a flight for anyone without one in mind.
A closer look at the route, not just the seat
FlightSide now shows the two cities and key details about the flight alongside the seat recommendation: confirm you picked the right airports, read the time change off two clocks, and check the return leg.
It's all about the sun (after all)
Not all sunlight reaches the side windows. FlightSide now weighs the sun’s angle to the cabin and shows twilight along the route.