Route brief · AUH → CAI
Abu Dhabi → Cairo
$228
−23% vs typical
seasonal median $295 · difference $67
Sep 15 – Oct 20 · 35 nights
EtihadNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $253–$345
- Board rank
- Stronger than 63%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefCAICairoTwenty million people, five thousand years, and the pyramids sitting at the edge of the suburbs.Best windowOct–AprAirportsCairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)All routes into CairoWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Sep is the cheapest for AUH → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $228 and peak in December near $356 — a $128 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Etihad nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 35-night trip. At $228 for 2,366 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 7th — 2.2× the $104 we hold from Milan.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 7 · $232 (14% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 20% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $313 then versus $251 now, across 5 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $230, on Sep 15.
Cheapest in Sep · around $228
23% below the $295 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Abu Dhabi → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zayed International (AUH) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,366 km each way
- Typical price
- $295 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
AUH → CAI, answered.
Is $228 a good price for Abu Dhabi to Cairo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $295 round-trip. At $228 you're 23% below that, saving about $67, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Abu Dhabi to Cairo?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Cairo are Oct–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AUH → Cairo?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 8 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Abu Dhabi to Cairo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Etihad). The outbound leg runs around 4 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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