Rare1 stop · 10.5h
WAS to LIMPeru
Lima
$347
usually $630
−45%
Most monthly lows $409–$630. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · WAS → CAI
Washington to Cairo
Best fare, round trip
$833
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sat 31 Oct
- Return
- Fri 6 Nov
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 10.5h
- Airline
EgyptAir
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.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies EgyptAir nonstop and takes about 10.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $833 for 9,349 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 16th — 2.1× the $388 we hold from Dallas. For context, the middle fare among the 21 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington is $789. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Cairo: Oct–Apr.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
Press a date to compare its fares
The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $794 then versus $833 now, across 20 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 $402, on 3 Nov.
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
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ≈10.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,349 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- EgyptAir
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
Good to know
WAS → CAI, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Cairo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (EgyptAir). The outbound leg runs around 10.5 hours.
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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