Route brief · BCN → CAI
Barcelona → Cairo
$173
−4% vs typical
seasonal median $180 · difference $7
Sep 17 – Oct 15 · 28 nights
Vueling1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $175–$179
- Board rank
- Stronger than 4%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for BCN → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $173 and peak in January near $386 — a $213 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5.5 hours outbound, on a 28-night trip — ticketed under Vueling, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $173 for 2,893 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 4th — 1.7× the $104 we hold from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Barcelona, where the middle fare is $173.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 10 · $169 (40% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $280 then versus $254 now, across 7 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 $169, on Nov 10.
Cheapest in Sep · around $173
4% below the $180 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Barcelona → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- El Prat (BCN) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~5.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,893 km each way
- Typical price
- $180 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Vueling
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
BCN → CAI, answered.
Is $173 a good price for Barcelona to Cairo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $180 round-trip and this fare is 4% under it, about $7. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Barcelona to Cairo?
Across 4 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 BCN → 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 4 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 Barcelona to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Vueling. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
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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