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What's new in Egypt travel: openings, records and the dates ahead

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The short answer

The Grand Egyptian Museum opened on 1 November 2025 with all of Tutankhamun's treasure shown together for the first time, and Egypt welcomed a record 19 million visitors in 2025. Ahead: the Abu Simbel sun festival on 22 October 2026, the museum's first anniversary on 1 November, and a total eclipse over Luxor on 2 August 2027.

The exterior facade and visitor approach at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
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Recently

  • January 2026: Egypt welcomed about 19 million visitors in 2025, a record and about a fifth more than in 2024, per the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (Business Today Egypt).
  • 1 November 2025: the Grand Egyptian Museum opened formally, about 2 km from the Giza pyramids, showing all 5,398 objects from Tutankhamun's tomb together for the first time (The Art Newspaper). See our museum guide.

Coming up

  • 15–23 October 2026, El Gouna, Red Sea: El Gouna Film Festival. Nine days of Arab and international cinema, screenings and red-carpet evenings in El Gouna. (The Rio Times, El Gouna Film Festival 15–23 October 2026)
  • 18–28 October 2026, Giza: Skydiving week over the pyramids. Two weeks of tandem and solo skydives over the Giza pyramids, with a limited number of places each week.
  • 22 October 2026, at dawn, Abu Simbel: Abu Simbel sun festival. At sunrise the light reaches deep into the Great Temple and falls on the statues in its sanctuary. (Wikipedia, Abu Simbel temples)
  • Three days around the October full moon, expected about 25–27 October 2026 (to be confirmed), Gebel Dakrour, Siwa: Siyaha festival in Siwa. Siwans gather at Gebel Dakrour for three days of shared meals, songs and the settling of the year's disputes. (Scoop Empire, Siwa's annual Siyaha festival)
  • 11–20 November 2026, Cairo Opera House: Cairo International Film Festival. The 47th edition of the Arab world's oldest international film festival, with screenings across the Opera House grounds. (Cairo International Film Festival, 47th edition)
  • 8 January 2027, Luxor West Bank: Egyptian Marathon, Luxor. Marathon, half marathon, 12 km and 5 km races starting at the Temple of Hatshepsut and running past the West Bank monuments. (Egyptian Marathon, 34th Egyptian Luxor Marathon)
  • Expected about 8 February to 9 March 2027, set by the crescent moon (to be confirmed), Islamic Cairo: Ramadan evenings in Cairo. Lanterns across the old streets, the evening meal at sunset and the city out late until the pre-dawn meal. (IslamicFinder, Ramadan 2027)
  • 22 February 2027, at dawn, Abu Simbel: Abu Simbel sun festival. At sunrise the light reaches deep into the Great Temple and falls on the statues in its sanctuary. (Wikipedia, Abu Simbel temples)
  • 2 August 2027, Luxor: Total solar eclipse over Luxor. Totality in Luxor is expected to last about 6 minutes 22 seconds, close to this eclipse's maximum of 6 minutes 23 seconds. (NASA, the path of the total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027)
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