Route brief · CHI → CAI
Chicago → Cairo
$378
−15% vs typical
seasonal median $445 · difference $67
Nov 4 – Nov 20 · 16 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $386–$474
- Board rank
- Stronger than 38%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for CHI → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in November around $378 and peak in March near $717 — a $339 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $378 for 9,861 km each way, that works out to about $19 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this is the cheapest right now — though New York is within a few dollars. It is also the cheapest of the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 32% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $696 then versus $474 now, across 4 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 $379, on Sep 11.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Nov · around $378
15% below the $445 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Chicago → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,861 km each way
- Typical price
- $445 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
CHI → CAI, answered.
Is $378 a good price for Chicago to Cairo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $445 round-trip and this fare is 15% under it, about $67. 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 Chicago to Cairo?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 CHI → 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 5 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. 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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