Route brief · LON → CAI
London → Cairo
$179
−27% vs typical
seasonal median $245 · difference $66
Nov 27 – Nov 30 · 3 nights
Wizz Air UKNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $242–$425
- Board rank
- Stronger than 73%
- 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, Nov is the cheapest for LON → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in November around $179 and peak in August near $836 — a $657 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air UK nonstop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $179 for 3,511 km each way, that works out to about $25 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 4th — 11% above the $161 from Paris.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 21 · $185 (42% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $318 then versus $280 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 $185, on Nov 21.
September 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $179
27% below the $245 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,511 km each way
- Typical price
- $245 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air UK
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
LON → CAI, answered.
Is $179 a good price for London to Cairo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $245 round-trip. At $179 you're 27% below that, saving about $66, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from London to Cairo?
Across 7 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 LON → 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, 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 London to Cairo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air UK). The outbound leg runs around 5 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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