Route brief · WAS → CAI
Washington → Cairo
$422
−37% vs typical
seasonal median $670 · difference $248
Sep 17 – Oct 28 · 41 nights
Royal Jordanian1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $651–$672
- Board rank
- Stronger than 86%
- 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, Sep is the cheapest for WAS → CAI. Best time to be there: Oct–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $422 and peak in December near $739 — a $317 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 41-night trip — ticketed under Royal Jordanian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $422 for 9,349 km each way, that works out to about $23 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cairo, this fare ranks 4th — 12% above the $378 from Chicago. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $794 then versus $672 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 $422, on Sep 17.
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 Sep · around $422
37% below the $670 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Washington → Cairo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Cairo (CAI) · Sphinx (SPX)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,349 km each way
- Typical price
- $670 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Royal Jordanian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
WAS → CAI, answered.
Is $422 a good price for Washington to Cairo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $670 round-trip. At $422 you're 37% below that, saving about $248, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Washington to Cairo?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 4 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Cairo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Royal Jordanian. 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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