Route brief · NYC → CAI
New York → Cairo
$395
−41% vs typical
seasonal median $670 · difference $275
Feb 2 '27 – Feb 18 '27 · 16 nights
Royal Jordanian1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $417–$722
- Board rank
- Stronger than 90%
- 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, Feb is the cheapest for NYC → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in February around $395 and peak in July near $975 — a $580 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under Royal Jordanian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $395 for 9,022 km each way, that works out to about $22 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 2nd — 4% above the $378 from Chicago. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 24 routes of similar length we watch out of New York.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $763 then versus $689 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 $416, on Sep 9.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 101 days priced, from 32 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Feb · around $395
41% below the $670 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,022 km each way
- Typical price
- $670 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Royal Jordanian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
NYC → CAI, answered.
Is $395 a good price for New York to Cairo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $670 round-trip. At $395 you're 41% below that, saving about $275, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from New York to Cairo?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Feb 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 NYC → 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, Feb comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Royal Jordanian. 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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