Route brief · MEX → CAI
Mexico City → Cairo
$1,316
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 16 – Oct 22 · 36 nights
United4 stops
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.
Best time to be in Cairo: Oct–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 4 stops and takes about 19 hours outbound, on a 36-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,316 for 12,369 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 10th — 3.5× the $378 we hold from Chicago. For context, the middle fare among the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Mexico City is $1,191. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% higher than when tracking began on Aug 9 — $1,268 then versus $1,316 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 $1,268, on Nov 20.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~19 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,369 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
MEX → CAI, answered.
How far in advance should I book MEX → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Mexico City to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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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