OUR CALENDAR APPEARS in two sections:
- Events with specific dates or months are right here up top
- Events happening in a quarter or other range of time with no specific date / month appear at the bottom of the calendar.
MAY
27 May-3 June (Friday-Friday): El Gouna International Squash Open 2022.
JUNE
1-4 June (Wednesday-Saturday): The Islamic Development Bank will hold its 2022 annual meetings in Sharm El Sheikh.
2-3 June (Thursday-Friday): Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) will hold two high-level parallel meetings on climate action and digital transformation during IsDB’s 2022 annual meetings in Sharm.
5-7 June (Sunday-Tuesday): Africa Health ExCon, Al Manara International Conference Center, Egypt International Exhibitions Center, and the St. Regis Almasa Hotel, new administrative capital.
5 June (Sunday): GB Auto is hosting an extraordinary general assembly meeting (pdf).
7 June (Tuesday): Technology conference Tech Invest 4, Grand Nile Hotel, in Cairo.
9 June (Thursday): European Central Bank monetary policy meeting.
9 June (Thursday): Digital Transformation Summit, The Nile Ritz-Carlton, Cairo
14-15 June (Tuesday-Wednesday): Federal Reserve interest rate meeting.
15-18 June (Wednesday-Saturday): St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), St. Petersburg.
16 June (Thursday): EU-Egypt Sustainable Food Value Chain conference, Grand Nile Tower Hotel, Cairo.
16 June (Thursday): End of 2021-2022 academic year for public schools.
21-22 June (Tuesday-Wednesday): Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development, Cairo.
21-23 June (Tuesday-Thursday): Commonwealth Business Forum, Kigali, Rwanda.
23 June (Thursday): Central Bank of Egypt’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
26 June (Sunday): The deadline for private companies to pre-register ahead of bidding for the second phase of the PPP national project to establish and operate 1k language schools.
27 June-3 July (Monday-Sunday): World University Squash Championships, New Giza.
30 June (Thursday): June 30 Revolution Day, national holiday.
30 June (Thursday): Deadline for bids for National Democratic Party HQ redevelopment contract.
June: Egypt will launch a unified ticketing system for all means of transport at the Adly Mansour Interchange Station.
June: Polish President Andrzej Duda will visit Egypt to coordinate ways to ship Ukrainian wheat to Egypt amid the war in Ukraine.
JULY
July: A law governing ins. for seasonal contractors will come into effect.
July: Fuel pricing committee meets to decide quarterly fuel prices.
1 July (Friday): FY 2022-2023 begins.
1 July (Friday): Official rollout of e-receipt system begins.
8 July (Friday): Arafat Day.
9-13 July (Saturday-Wednesday): Eid Al Adha, national holiday.
21 July (Thursday): European Central Bank monetary policy meeting.
26-27 July (Tuesday-Wednesday): Federal Reserve interest rate meeting.
30 July (Saturday): Islamic New Year.
Late July – 14 August: 2Q2022 earnings season.
AUGUST
August: Work to extend the capacity of the Egypt-Sudan electricity interconnection to 600 MW to be completed.
18 August (Thursday): Central Bank of Egypt’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
SEPTEMBER
September: Egypt will display its first naval exhibition with the title Naval Power.
September: Central Bank of Egypt’s Innovation and Financial Technology Center to launch incubator for 25 fintech startups.
8 September (Thursday): European Central Bank monetary policy meeting.
18 September (Sunday): Deadline for brokerage firms, asset managers and financial advisors to register with the Egyptian Securities Federation.
20-21 September (Tuesday-Wednesday): Federal Reserve interest rate meeting.
22 September (Thursday): Central Bank of Egypt’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
26–27 September (Monday-Tuesday): The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) at the Cairo Marriott Hotel.
OCTOBER
October: Fuel pricing committee meets to decide quarterly fuel prices.
1 October (Saturday): Use of Nafeza becomes compulsory for air freight.
6 October (Thursday): Armed Forces Day, national holiday.
8 October (Saturday): Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, national holiday.
10-16 October (Monday-Sunday): World Bank and IMF annual meetings, Washington, DC, chaired by CBE Governor Tarek Amer
18-20 October(Tuesday-Thursday): Mediterranean Offshore Conference, Alexandria, Egypt.
27 October (Thursday): European Central Bank monetary policy meeting.
Late October – 14 November: 3Q2022 earnings season.
NOVEMBER
November: Cairo Water Week 2022.
1-2 November (Tuesday-Wednesday): Federal Reserve interest rate meeting.
3 November (Thursday): Central Bank of Egypt’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
3-5 November (Thursday-Saturday): Egypt Fashion Week.
4-6 November (Friday-Sunday): The Autotech auto exhibition kicks off at the Cairo International Exhibition and Convention Center.
7-18 November (Monday-Friday): Egypt will host COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh.
21 November-18 December (Monday-Sunday): 2022 Fifa World Cup, Qatar.
13-14 December (Tuesday-Wednesday): Federal Reserve interest rate meeting.
15 December (Thursday): European Central Bank monetary policy meeting.
DECEMBER
22 December (Thursday): Central Bank of Egypt’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
JANUARY 2023
January EGX-listed companies and non-bank lenders will submit ESG reports for the first time.
January: Fuel pricing committee meets to decide quarterly fuel prices.
MAY 2023
22-26 May (Monday-Friday): Egypt will host the African Development Bank (AfDB) annual meetings in Sharm El Sheikh.
EVENTS WITH NO SET DATE
2Q2022: The Sovereign Fund of Egypt will invest in two companies in the financial inclusion and non-banking financial services sectors.
End of 2Q2022: The Financial Regulatory Authority’s new Ins. Act should be approved.
End of 2Q2022: Door for bidding for the contract to redevelop the site of the former National Democratic Party HQ to close.
1H2022: Target date for IDH to close its acquisition of 50% of Islamabad Diagnostic Center.
1H2022: e-Finance’s digital healthcare service platform, eHealth, will launch its services.
1H2022: The government will respond to private companies’ bids to build desalination plants.
1H2022: Egypt’s second corporate green bond issuance expected to be announced.
End of 1H2022: Emirati industrial company M Glory Holding and the Military Production Ministry will begin the mass production of dual fuel pickup trucks that can run on natural gas.
2H2022: The inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum.
2H2022: IEF-IGU Ministerial Gas Forum, Egypt. Date + location TBA.
2H2022: The government will have vaccinated 70% of the population.
3Q2022: Ayady’s consumer financing arm, The Egyptian Company for Consumer Finance Services, to release its first financing product.
End of 2022: e-Aswaaq’s tourism platform will complete the roll out of its ticketing and online booking portal across Egypt.
2023: Egypt will host the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors in 2023.
**Note to readers: Some national holidays may appear twice above. Since 2020, Egypt has observed most mid-week holidays on Thursdays regardless of the day on which they fall and may also move those days to Sundays. We distinguish above between the actual holiday and its observance.