Wat er het hele jaar speelt in Caïro, Egypte

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, Mid-year holiday in Egypte

• Regel

  Timed tickets at the big museums

  1 jan – 31 decBoek vroeg

  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. Bron ↗

• Festival

  Coptic Christmas

  6–7 janKerst & nieuwjaarSluitingen

  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. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, Ramadan

• Feestdag

  Ramadan

  19 feb – 19 mrtSluitingen

  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. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)

Druk — tussen de pieken in, Ramadan

• Risico

  Khamaseen dust winds

  1 mrt – 31 mei · meestalStofseizoen

  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. Bron ↗

• Feestdag

  Eid al-Fitr

  20–22 mrtRamadan & SuikerfeestDrukSluitingen

  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. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Ramadan (19 feb – 19 mrt)

Druk — tussen de pieken in, Sham el-Nessim

• Festival

  Sham el-Nessim

  13 aprGroot festivalDruk

  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. Bron ↗

• Feestdag

  Eid al-Adha

  25 apr – 15 jun · meestalRamadan & SuikerfeestSluitingenDruk

  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. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Ramadan (19 feb – 19 mrt), Khamaseen dust winds (1 mrt – 31 mei (meestal)), Eid al-Fitr (20–22 mrt)

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, Eid al-Adha

In mei begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Khamaseen dust winds (1 mrt – 31 mei (meestal)), Sham el-Nessim (13 apr), Eid al-Adha (25 apr – 15 jun (meestal))

Rustig — de rustige maand volgens de redactie, Eid al-Adha

• Risico

  High summer heat

  1 jun – 10 sep · meestalExtreme hitte

  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. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Eid al-Adha (25 apr – 15 jun (meestal))

Rustig — de rustige maand volgens de redactie, Summer holidays in Egypte

In juli begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), High summer heat (1 jun – 10 sep (meestal))

Rustig — de rustige maand volgens de redactie, Summer holidays in Egypte

In augustus begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), High summer heat (1 jun – 10 sep (meestal))

Druk — tussen de pieken in, Summer holidays in Egypte

In september begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), High summer heat (1 jun – 10 sep (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — tussen de pieken in, schoolvakanties in 4 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Risico

  The black cloud

  1 okt – 30 nov · meestalRookseizoen

  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. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, schoolvakanties in 2 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Festival

  Cairo International Film Festival

  10–25 nov · meestal

  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. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), The black cloud (1 okt – 30 nov (meestal))

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, schoolvakanties in 5 van de markten die de plek vullen

In december begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)