Route brief · LIS → CAI
Lisbon → Cairo
$283
−19% vs typical
seasonal median $350 · difference $67
Dec 5 – Dec 14 · 9 nights
Ryanair1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $329–$348
- Board rank
- Stronger than 52%
- 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, Dec is the cheapest for LIS → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in December around $283 and peak in August near $479 — a $196 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 6.5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Ryanair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $283 for 3,796 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 11th — 1.8× the $161 we hold from Paris. For context, the middle fare among the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon is $219.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 31% lower than when tracking began on Aug 15 — $510 then versus $352 now, across 6 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 $283, on Dec 5.
- Fri, Sep 4$580
- Mon, Sep 28$348
- Thu, Oct 8$353
- Fri, Oct 9$387
- Wed, Oct 14$329
- Fri, Oct 16$352
- Sat, Dec 5$283
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 Dec · around $283
19% below the $350 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Lisbon → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~6.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,796 km each way
- Typical price
- $350 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
LIS → CAI, answered.
Is $283 a good price for Lisbon to Cairo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $350 round-trip and this fare is 19% 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 Lisbon to Cairo?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 LIS → 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, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Lisbon to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ryanair. 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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