Route brief · IST → CAI
Istanbul → Cairo
$159
−24% vs typical
seasonal median $210 · difference $51
Sep 16 – Sep 23 · 7 nights
PegasusNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $182–$235
- Board rank
- Stronger than 66%
- 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 IST → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $159 and peak in July near $422 — a $263 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Pegasus nonstop and takes about 2 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $159 for 1,236 km each way, that works out to about $64 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $150.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 29 · $157 (25% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $218 then versus $193 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 $154, on Sep 29.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $159
24% below the $210 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~2 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,236 km each way
- Typical price
- $210 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Pegasus
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
IST → CAI, answered.
Is $159 a good price for Istanbul to Cairo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $210 round-trip. At $159 you're 24% below that, saving about $51, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Istanbul 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 IST → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Istanbul to Cairo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Pegasus). The outbound leg runs around 2 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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