There are 8 ways to get from Cairo to John o' Groats by plane, bus, car, car ferry, train, or ferry
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Fly to Inverness Dalcross Airport, bus
best- Fly from Cairo International Airport (CAI) to Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV)CAI - INV
- Take the bus from Union Street to Co-Op
20h 9mFly to Kirkwall, ferry
cheapest- Fly from Cairo International Airport (CAI) to Kirkwall (KOI)CAI - KOI
- Take the ferry from St Margarets Hope Ferry Terminal to Gills Bay Ferry Terminal
17h 50m£346–1,132Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Cairo to Calais
- Take the car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Drive from Port of Dover to John o' Groats
2d 16h£888–1,294Fly to Edinburgh Airport, bus, train
- Fly from Cairo International Airport (CAI) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)CAI - EDI
- Take the bus from Airport to Leonard Street
- Take the train from Perth to Inverness
- Take the bus from Union Street to Co-Op
20h 36mFly to Glasgow Airport, train, bus
- Fly from Cairo International Airport (CAI) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)CAI - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Perth
- Take the train from Perth to Inverness
- Take the bus from Union Street to Co-Op
21h 21mFly to Aberdeen Airport, train, bus
- Fly from Cairo International Airport (CAI) to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ)CAI - ABZ
- Take the train from Dyce to Inverness
- Take the bus from Union Street to Co-Op
20h 31mFly to Dundee Riverside Airport, train, bus
- Fly from Cairo International Airport (CAI) to Dundee Riverside Airport (DND)CAI - DND
- Take the train from Perth to Inverness
- Take the bus from Union Street to Co-Op
21h 43mFly to Newcastle, train, bus
- Fly from Cairo International Airport (CAI) to Newcastle (NCL)CAI - NCL
- Take the train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Inverness
- Take the bus from Union Street to Co-Op
23h 38m
Cairo International Airport (CAI) to Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cairo to John o' Groats is to fly and ferry which costs £340 - £1,200 and takes 17h 50m.
The fastest way to get from Cairo to John o' Groats is to fly and ferry which takes 17h 50m and costs £340 - £1,200.
The distance between Cairo and John o' Groats is 2716 miles.
It takes approximately 20h 9m to get from Cairo to John o' Groats, including transfers.
John o' Groats is 2h behind Cairo. It is currently 5:37 AM in Cairo and 3:37 AM in John o' Groats.
There are 158+ hotels available in John o' Groats.
What companies run services between Cairo, Egypt and John o' Groats, Scotland?
There is no direct connection from Cairo to John o' Groats. However, you can take the line 3 train to Cairo Fair, walk to Cairo International Fair, take the line 111 bus to Cairo Airport, walk to Cairo International Airport (CAI) airport, fly to Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV), walk to Terminal Building, take the bus to Inverness Airport station, walk to Inverness Airport Station, take the train to Inverness, walk to Union Street, take the bus to Co-Op, walk to Bus Terminal, then take the bus to Post Office. Alternatively, you can take a vehicle from Cairo to John o' Groats via Calais and Port of Dover in around 2d 16h.
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £150–750
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £220–750
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Kirkwall via Brussels, Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 32m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £330–1,100
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £130–650
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £190–650
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Dundee Riverside Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 18m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £130–650
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Dundee Riverside Airport via Brussels, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–650
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Dundee Riverside Airport via Dusseldorf, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–700
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £140–450
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Kirkwall via Brussels, Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 32m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £330–1,100
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Kirkwall via Amsterdam Schiphol, Aberdeen Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 40m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £320–1,100
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £100–480
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £130–600
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Newcastle via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £110–550
- Website
- loganair.co.uk
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £220–750
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Kirkwall via Brussels, Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 32m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £330–1,100
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £190–650
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Dundee Riverside Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–650
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Dundee Riverside Airport via Brussels, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–650
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £140–450
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £120–600
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Newcastle via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 58m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £130–650
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £140–450
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £95–410
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- £100–490
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £190–650
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Newcastle via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £160–550
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £140–460
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £140–460
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Cairo International Airport to Newcastle via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 15m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £160–550
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Perth to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- £16–40
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Perth
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £13–23
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Dyce to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £19–55
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 44m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £30–75
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Perth to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 8m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £13–17
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £22–40
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £23–75
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Perth to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £240–280
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £240–290
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Inverness
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £260–300
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £28–40
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £8–25
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 (0)131 510 4007
- ride@ember.to
- Website
- ember.to
Bus from Union Street to Co-Op
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Website
- https://www.ember.to/
Bus from Airport to Leonard Street
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.ember.to/
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £30–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- £65–170
- On Foot
- £30–40
- Phone
- +44 (0)800 688 8998
- sales@pentlandferries.co.uk
- Website
- pentlandferries.co.uk
Ferry from St Margarets Hope Ferry Terminal to Gills Bay Ferry Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £17
- Website
- https://pentlandferries.co.uk/
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