Route brief · SHA → CAI
Shanghai → Cairo
$690
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $750 · difference $60
Oct 7 – Oct 23 · 16 nights
Etihad1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $690–$750
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- 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 SHA → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $690 and peak in September near $1,151 — a $461 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $690 for 8,355 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 9th — 1.8× the $378 we hold from Chicago. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $759.
The 3 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 Aug 8 — $911 then versus $700 now, across 8 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 $615, on Nov 26.
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.
Cheapest in Oct · around $690
8% below the $750 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,355 km each way
- Typical price
- $750 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
SHA → CAI, answered.
Is $690 a good price for Shanghai to Cairo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $750 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $60. 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, 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 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, 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 Shanghai to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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