Route brief · MAD → CAI
Madrid → Cairo
$166
−31% vs typical
seasonal median $240 · difference $74
Oct 11 – Nov 11 · 31 nights
Ajet1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $227–$278
- Board rank
- Stronger than 80%
- 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, Oct is the cheapest for MAD → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $166 and peak in September near $333 — a $167 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 7 hours outbound, on a 31-night trip — ticketed under Ajet, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $166 for 3,350 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 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 3rd — 60% above the $104 from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $166.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 25% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $337 then versus $253 now, across 8 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 $166, on Oct 11.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 17 of 93 days priced, from 40 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
September 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $166
31% below the $240 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~7 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,350 km each way
- Typical price
- $240 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ajet
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
MAD → CAI, answered.
Is $166 a good price for Madrid to Cairo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $240 round-trip. At $166 you're 31% below that, saving about $74, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Madrid to Cairo?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 MAD → 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, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Madrid to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ajet. 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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