På gång i Cairo, Egypt under året

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Mid-year holiday i Egypt

• Regel

  Timed tickets at the big museums

  1 jan – 31 decBoka tidigt

  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. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Coptic Christmas

  6–7 janJul & nyårStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Ramadan

• Helg

  Ramadan

  19 feb – 19 marStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, Ramadan

• Risk

  Khamaseen dust winds

  1 mar – 31 maj · vanligtvisDammsäsong

  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. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Eid al-Fitr

  20–22 marRamadan & eidTrångtStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Ramadan (19 feb – 19 mar)

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, Sham el-Nessim

• Festival

  Sham el-Nessim

  13 aprStor festivalTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Eid al-Adha

  25 apr – 15 jun · vanligtvisRamadan & eidStängningarTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Ramadan (19 feb – 19 mar), Khamaseen dust winds (1 mar – 31 maj (vanligtvis)), Eid al-Fitr (20–22 mar)

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Eid al-Adha

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

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

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Eid al-Adha

• Risk

  High summer heat

  1 jun – 10 sep · vanligtvisExtrem värme

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), Eid al-Adha (25 apr – 15 jun (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Summer holidays i Egypt

Inget nytt börjar i juli.

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), High summer heat (1 jun – 10 sep (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Summer holidays i Egypt

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), High summer heat (1 jun – 10 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, Summer holidays i Egypt

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), High summer heat (1 jun – 10 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — mellan topparna, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Risk

  The black cloud

  1 okt – 30 nov · vanligtvisRöksäsong

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  Cairo International Film Festival

  10–25 nov · vanligtvis

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec), The black cloud (1 okt – 30 nov (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, skollov i 5 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i december.

Pågår fortfarande: Timed tickets at the big museums (1 jan – 31 dec)