Route brief · SAO → CAI
São Paulo → Cairo
$974
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $1,215 · difference $241
Feb 17 '27 – Feb 24 '27 · 7 nights
British Airways1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,060–$1,213
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- 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, Feb is the cheapest for SAO → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in February around $974 and peak in September near $1,299 — a $325 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under British Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $974 for 10,220 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 20th — 2.6× the $378 we hold from Chicago. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 43 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo, where the middle fare is $1,035.
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 — $1,333 then versus $1,200 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 $1,083, on Sep 27.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 101 days priced, from 25 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Feb · around $974
20% below the $1,215 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · São Paulo → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,220 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,215 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- British Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
SAO → CAI, answered.
Is $974 a good price for São Paulo to Cairo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,215 round-trip. At $974 you're 20% below that, saving about $241, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from São Paulo to Cairo?
Across 4 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 SAO → 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, 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 São Paulo to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under British Airways. 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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