How Far is Sphinx Airport from Giza?

Sphinx Airport sits close to Giza — typically a short drive of well under an hour to the Pyramids and central Giza, depending on traffic.

For travellers building an Egypt itinerary around this, the practical part — getting from the airport to your hotel or vice versa — is usually the easiest piece to plan: book a licensed driver in advance and the rest takes care of itself.

It is a single-terminal airport: one compact main building (around 4,000 m² of terminal space on a roughly 24,000 m² site) handles both domestic and international departures and arrivals, with a processing capacity of around 900 passengers an hour and an annual capacity of about 1.5 million passengers following recent upgrades.

As with most Egyptian airports, it's worth arriving at least 3 hours before an international departure and around 2 hours before a domestic one, since security screening and passport control can take longer at busier times.