Airbnb Occupancy Rate in Cairo, Egypt, Data & Trends 2026

For the analysis period June 2025 to May 2026, Cairo runs about 54% average occupancy with an ADR of 46 EUR (around 42 USD) and average monthly revenue near 722 EUR (about 656 USD) per active whole-unit listing, across roughly 390 tracked listings and 195 booked nights a year. Cairo is currently the only Egyptian market we track, so these figures are effectively the national baseline rather than a comparison against peer cities; the ADR is low in absolute terms, reflecting the weak Egyptian pound and an intensely price-competitive supply rather than weak demand.

The headline caution is year-on-year revenue at -12%, meaning per-listing earnings fell even as national arrivals rose strongly in 2025 - a classic sign that new supply is being added faster than demand, diluting bookings across more units. Seasonality of 34% is moderate, with December and July as the strongest months and February-March the weakest, so the realistic lever for managers here is not rate inflation but occupancy capture in the December peak plus disciplined cost control to protect margins as ADR stays soft.

Cairo's short-term-rental demand is driven overwhelmingly by inbound cultural tourism: visitors come for the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square, Islamic Cairo and the Khan el-Khalili bazaar, and increasingly the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which fully opened on the Giza plateau on 1 November 2025 and drew roughly 19,000 visitors a day in its first week. The city is also the standard gateway and stopover for Nile cruises to Luxor and Aswan and for Red Sea trips, so many guests book two- to four-night stays rather than long holidays.

Beyond leisure, Cairo as the Arab world's largest metropolis generates steady non-tourist demand: business travellers, regional medical tourists, diplomatic and NGO staff, and a large diaspora visiting family. Egypt welcomed close to 19 million tourists in 2025, up around 21% year on year, which keeps a deep base of demand under the roughly 390 active whole-unit listings tracked here, though it is split across a very wide and price-competitive supply.

Zamalek, the leafy island district in the Nile, is Cairo's premium short-let area: embassies, the Cairo Opera House, galleries and upmarket cafes make it the safe choice for higher nightly rates and longer corporate or diplomatic stays. Downtown Cairo (Wust el-Balad) offers the best value-to-location ratio for first-time tourists, with belle-epoque buildings and quick access to the Egyptian Museum and Khan el-Khalili, but it is noisier and more variable in quality. Maadi, further south along the Nile, is the expat-and-family choice, greener and quieter, suited to mid-stay and relocation guests.

Giza and the area around the new Grand Egyptian Museum are increasingly important for pyramid-view and museum-adjacent listings, where a clear Sphinx or pyramid sightline commands a premium but supply is exploding. Heliopolis and Nasr City serve airport-proximate and business demand. For managers, the trade-off is consistent: island and riverside addresses (Zamalek, Maadi) defend ADR, while Downtown and Giza win on volume and tourist footfall.