Route brief · DXB → CAI
Dubai → Cairo
$271
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $295 · difference $24
Mar 26 '27 – Mar 31 '27 · 5 nights
Kuwait Airways1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $289–$315
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Mar is the cheapest for DXB → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in March around $271 and peak in June near $397 — a $126 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Kuwait Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $271 for 2,423 km each way, that works out to about $56 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 9th — 2.6× the $104 we hold from Milan.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 22 · $288 (9% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 28% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $427 then versus $306 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 $287, on Aug 22.
September 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Mar · around $271
8% below the $295 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,423 km each way
- Typical price
- $295 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Kuwait Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
DXB → CAI, answered.
Is $271 a good price for Dubai to Cairo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $295 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $24. 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 Dubai to Cairo?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Mar 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 DXB → 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 7 months of cached fares, Mar comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dubai to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Kuwait Airways. 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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