When to plant tomato in Cairo
Published guidance for the region shown below. Dates retain the source's precision and are not a weather forecast or a guarantee for an individual garden.
Regional agricultural calendar; irrigated-field conditions, not a prediction for an urban garden.
FAO Crop Calendar: Egypt, Delta region · Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations · Records updated 26 February 2021; retrieved September 2026
Country EG, AEZ 001, crop 0356, session 1, early_sowing/later_sowing · Source checked 2026-09-13
Delta-region agricultural calendar. Tomato records describe nursery establishment and open-field irrigation; “sowing” is not relabeled as transplanting.
Regional agricultural calendar; irrigated-field conditions, not a prediction for an urban garden.
FAO Crop Calendar: Egypt, Delta region · Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations · Records updated 26 February 2021; retrieved September 2026
Country EG, AEZ 001, crop 0356, session 1, early_harvest/late_harvest · Source checked 2026-09-13
Delta-region agricultural calendar. Tomato records describe nursery establishment and open-field irrigation; “sowing” is not relabeled as transplanting. This published harvest period is independent of an individual sowing date; no sow-to-harvest pairing is inferred.
How to use this guidance
Where does the tomato guidance for Cairo come from?
The published recommendations are from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Egypt — Delta region). Check the geographic scope and conditions beside each citation.
Are these exact dates for my garden?
No. These are regional recommendations at the precision used by the source. Weather, elevation, cultivar and growing conditions still matter. A missing window means we have not verified a source, not that growing is impossible.
Which planting and harvest periods are published?
Sowing period: March 1–May 1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Egypt — Delta region. Published harvest period: June 1–September 30. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Egypt — Delta region.