ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
SHA to CANChina
Guangzhou
$120
usually $270
−56%
Most monthly lows $163–$394. Cheaper than every other month on record (10).
Flights · SHA → CAI
Shanghai to Cairo
Best fare, round trip
$682
−2%
below its usual $695
you keep $13
Found
- Depart
- Sun 3 Jan
- Return
- Sat 23 Jan
- Stay
- 20 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 14.5h
- Airline
Gulf Air
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $684 and $696. The drop beats 0% of measured fares on the board, over 4 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 on this route stay within about $28 across the 4 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 20-night trip — ticketed under Gulf Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $682 for 8,355 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 10th — 57% above the $435 from Kuala Lumpur. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 40 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $777. The best time to be in Cairo: Oct–Apr.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 23% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $911 then versus $699 now, across 23 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 $578, on 21 Oct.
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.
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Jan, around $682
2% below the $695 typical fare
$684Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$696Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$682Jan ’27, the cheapest month. Compare January fares.$710Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Shanghai to Cairo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ≈14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,355 km each way
- Typical price
- $695 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Gulf Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
Good to know
SHA → CAI, answered.
Is $682 a good price for Shanghai to Cairo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $695 round-trip and this fare is 2% under it. 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 Shanghai to Cairo?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Jan 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 SHA → 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, Jan comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Gulf Air. 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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