San Francisco → Cairo flights

SFO–Cairo fares are rock-steady near $459 — book whenever

Key takeaways

• $459 median fare, with a tight range of $459–$466 across the sample
• 2% spread — one of the smallest we track, meaning timing games likely won't save much
• P25 and median both sit at $459, so cheap fares aren't rare outliers — they're the norm
• Only 8 daily snapshots collected, so this read is a short-term snapshot, not a seasonal trend
• No carrier data available, so we can't attribute the stability to a specific airline's pricing

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the SFO → CAI price history page.

The full picture

The data shows a remarkably narrow price band for SFO–Cairo: every fare in the sample fell between $459 and $466, a spread of just 2%. That's unusually tight — most routes show far more day-to-day noise. When a spread is this small, it usually means the fare is being set by a dominant pricing structure (a single carrier or alliance with limited competition) rather than fluctuating with demand or booking-window dynamics.

Because the range is so compressed, there's little evidence of a meaningful 'book early vs. book late' advantage here. The median ($459) and 25th percentile ($459) are identical, which tells us the lower end of the market isn't meaningfully cheaper than the typical fare — you're not leaving much on the table by booking whenever it's convenient. We don't have enough longer-horizon data to say whether prices soften further out from departure or spike closer to it; this snapshot simply shows a stable fare floor around $459–$466 over the period observed.

We also can't identify a dominant carrier or day-of-week pattern from this data, so no routing or weekday advice is warranted. The honest caveat: with only 8 snapshots, this is a thin sample — it tells us fares were stable over a short window, not that they'll stay this way across a full booking season. Treat $459 as a solid reference price for this route right now, but check back as more data accumulates before assuming this pattern holds months out.

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