Route brief · ROM → CAI
Rome → Cairo
$104
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $120 · difference $16
Oct 27 – Nov 4 · 8 nights
Wizz Air MaltaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $116–$122
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for ROM → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $104 and peak in December near $252 — a $148 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air Malta nonstop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip. At $104 for 2,132 km each way, that works out to about $24 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 2nd — 0% above the $104 from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome is $100.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 55% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $342 then versus $153 now, across 6 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 $104, on Oct 27.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 122 days priced, from 51 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
December 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $104
13% below the $120 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,132 km each way
- Typical price
- $120 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
ROM → CAI, answered.
Is $104 a good price for Rome to Cairo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $120 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $16. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Rome to Cairo?
Across 4 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 ROM → 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 4 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 Rome to Cairo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air Malta). The outbound leg runs around 3.5 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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