Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Erbil to Cairo. From €139.38, fastest 5h 22m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Travelling from Erbil to Cairo costs €139.38 at the cheapest and takes 5h 22m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 1,409 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on 29 September 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 5h 30m | 2h 20m | 3h 10m | €162.39 | 346.6 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Baghdad, with 87 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 7h 35mCO2 409.1 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 5h 30mCO2 346.6 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of travelling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Erbil to Cairo | Thu10 Sept | Fri11 Sept | Sat12 Sept | Sun13 Sept | Mon14 Sept | Tue15 Sept | Wed16 Sept | Thu17 Sept | Fri18 Sept | Sat19 Sept | Sun20 Sept | Mon21 Sept | Tue22 Sept | Wed23 Sept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | €372.43 | €283.34 | €279.21 | €232.60 | €193.07 | €194.25 | €216.08 | €200.15 | €191.89 | €205.46 | €201.92 | €174.78 | €167.11 | €162.39 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €139.38
The journey ends at Stadium. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
The search opens on Cairo with your nights already filled in, so it is one step to a real price.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Cairo is large, and the road in from CAI can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Cairo costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Egyptair | €149.41 | 5h 22m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €110.50 | 79% |
| Taxes | €19.89 | 14% |
| Supplier fees | €7.00 | 5% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 1% |
| Total you pay | €139.38 | 100% |
A day in Cairo carrying a suitcase is a shorter day than it needs to be. We do not store bags.
Shops, cafes and hotels that take luggage, with the opening hours on the map so you know what is still open when you come back.
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The fastest journey from Erbil to Cairo takes 5h 22m door to door, of which 2h 20m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 5h 31m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Erbil to Cairo is €139.38, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €197.79. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Erbil to Cairo is by Flight, at €162.39 for one passenger on 29 September 2026. That journey takes 5h 30m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Erbil to Cairo bottom out around 90 days before departure, at €111.65. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 234 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Erbil to Cairo, at €162.39. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on 29 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Erbil to Cairo, at €95.72 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
1 operators sell services from Erbil to Cairo across 1 modes: Egyptair. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
20 percent of the services we sell from Erbil to Cairo are direct. The rest connect at Beirut, Antalya, Amman, Baghdad, with about 73 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Erbil to Cairo by Flight leave from Erbil EBL and arrive at Cairo SPX. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Erbil to Cairo allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
Our job ends on the platform. What fills the days in Cairo afterwards does not belong to us.
Day trips that leave Cairo in the morning and cover a good part of Egypt by evening.
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