Det sker i Cairo, Egypt året igennem

Tætpakket — redaktionens travleste måned, Mid-year holiday i Egypt

• Regel

  Timed tickets at the big museums

  1. jan. – 31. dec.Book tidligt

  The Grand Egyptian Museum sells dated, time-slotted tickets and the Tutankhamun galleries are a separate one; the Giza plateau has its own online ticket and shuttle. Buying at the gate is the slow way in. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Coptic Christmas

  6.–7. jan.Jul & nytårLukninger

  Egypt's Christmas falls on 7 January and is a public holiday: midnight liturgies in the Coptic churches of Old Cairo, and a quiet city the following day. Kilde ↗

Tætpakket — redaktionens travleste måned, Ramadan

• Helligdag

  Ramadan

  19. feb. – 19. mar.Lukninger

  Daytime cafés and many restaurants close, offices work short hours, and the city comes alive after the sunset cannon with iftar tables set up in the street. The dates slide about eleven days earlier each year. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.)

Travlt — mellem toppene, Ramadan

• Risiko

  Khamaseen dust winds

  1. mar. – 31. maj · normaltStøvsæson

  Hot southerly winds carry Saharan dust over the city for a day or two at a time, closing the horizon and grounding the view from the Giza plateau. They peak in April and arrive with little notice. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Eid al-Fitr

  20.–22. mar.Ramadan & eidTætpakketLukninger

  Three or four days off that empty the offices and fill the north-coast road, the trains and the parks. Sites stay open but are busy with Egyptian families, and hotel rates rise for the week. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.), Ramadan (19. feb. – 19. mar.)

Travlt — mellem toppene, Sham el-Nessim

• Festival

  Sham el-Nessim

  13. apr.Stor festivalTætpakket

  A spring festival older than either religion here, kept by the whole country on the Monday after Coptic Easter: parks and riverbanks full of families eating salted fish and spring onions. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Eid al-Adha

  25. apr. – 15. jun. · normaltRamadan & eidLukningerTætpakket

  Four days of public holiday when the city half empties towards the coast and the North Coast road is solid. Sites stay open, offices and banks do not, and the date moves earlier each year. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.), Ramadan (19. feb. – 19. mar.), Khamaseen dust winds (1. mar. – 31. maj (normalt)), Eid al-Fitr (20.–22. mar.)

Tætpakket — redaktionens travleste måned, Eid al-Adha

Intet nyt begynder i maj.

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.), Khamaseen dust winds (1. mar. – 31. maj (normalt)), Sham el-Nessim (13. apr.), Eid al-Adha (25. apr. – 15. jun. (normalt))

Stille — redaktionens stille måned, Eid al-Adha

• Risiko

  High summer heat

  1. jun. – 10. sep. · normaltEkstrem varme

  The plateau at Giza has no shade and no water on it, and the middle of a July day there is genuinely dangerous rather than merely uncomfortable. Sites from seven, then indoors until the evening. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.), Eid al-Adha (25. apr. – 15. jun. (normalt))

Stille — redaktionens stille måned, Summer holidays i Egypt

Intet nyt begynder i juli.

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.), High summer heat (1. jun. – 10. sep. (normalt))

Stille — redaktionens stille måned, Summer holidays i Egypt

Intet nyt begynder i august.

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.), High summer heat (1. jun. – 10. sep. (normalt))

Travlt — mellem toppene, Summer holidays i Egypt

Intet nyt begynder i september.

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.), High summer heat (1. jun. – 10. sep. (normalt))

Skuldersæson — mellem toppene, skoleferie på 4 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Risiko

  The black cloud

  1. okt. – 30. nov. · normaltRøgsæson

  Smoke from rice-straw burning in the Delta gets trapped over Cairo by autumn inversions and sits there for days. It undoes the air-quality figure for the two months that are otherwise the best of the year. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.)

Tætpakket — redaktionens travleste måned, skoleferie på 2 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Festival

  Cairo International Film Festival

  10.–25. nov. · normalt

  The oldest film festival in the Arab world runs for ten days out of the opera house grounds in Zamalek, in the best fortnight of the Cairo year for being outdoors. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.), The black cloud (1. okt. – 30. nov. (normalt))

Tætpakket — redaktionens travleste måned, skoleferie på 5 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

Intet nyt begynder i december.

Stadig i gang: Timed tickets at the big museums (1. jan. – 31. dec.)