Rare2 stops · 12.5h
NYC to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$410
usually $820
−50%
Most monthly lows $576–$946. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · NYC → CAI
New York to Cairo
Best fare, round trip
$440
−41%
below its usual $740
you keep $300
RareFound
- Depart
- Wed 17 Mar
- Return
- Wed 31 Mar
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 12h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $736 and $825. The drop beats 89% of measured fares on the board, over 8 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
EgyptCairoTwenty million people, five thousand years, and the pyramids sitting at the edge of the suburbs.Best windowOct–AprAirportsCairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)Every route into CairoFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in March around $440 and peak in July near $904, 105% dearer, across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $440 for 9,022 km each way, that works out to about $24 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 per 1,000 km 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 4th — 13% above the $388 from Dallas. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 24 routes of similar length we watch out of New York. The best time to be in Cairo: Oct–Apr.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 2 Nov, $463
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $763 then versus $850 now, across 19 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 $396, on 21 Oct.
October 2026
15161718192021Thursday 22 October: $1.4k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 23 October: $751, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 24 October: $727, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 25 October: $692, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 26 October: $736, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2728293031
November 2026
December 2026
1234Saturday 5 December: $750, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.678910111213Monday 14 December: $552, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1516Thursday 17 December: $1.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 18 December: $1.9k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 19 December: $1.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 20 December: $1.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 21 December: $1.2k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 22 December: $1.2k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 23 December: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 24 December: $915, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 25 December: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.262728293031
January 2027
123Monday 4 January: $736, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.5678910111213141516Sunday 17 January: $801, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1819202122232425262728293031
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualCached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026 · bands from 99 tracked fares
Cheapest in Mar, around $440
41% below the $740 typical fare
$692Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$463Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$552Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$736Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$742Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$440Mar, the cheapest month. Compare March fares.$849May, above the usual price. Compare May fares.$904Jul, above the usual price. Compare July fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, New York to Cairo, from cached prices.
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
- $740 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
Good to know
NYC → CAI, answered.
Is $440 a good price for New York to Cairo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $740 round-trip. At $440 you're 41% below that, 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, Mar 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, Mar comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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