Egypt Produce Season Calendar: Every Export, Month by Month

One page, the whole origin: the Egypt produce season calendar maps when every major export ships — citrus, mangoes, strawberries, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, grapes, pomegranates, dates, and the frozen lines that run year-round. Bookmark it, plan against it, and follow the links into each product’s full guide. Egypt’s superpower is exactly this calendar: something is always in season, and several windows face almost no competition.

Last updated: July 2026 · By the Nile Prime export team

Table of Contents

1. The Master Calendar
2. The 5 Windows Where Egypt Faces No Real Competition
3. How to Use This Calendar
4. Egypt Seasons — FAQ
5. Build Your Year-Round Program
6. Worked Example: 12-Month Program
7. Three Rules

The Master Calendar

● peak/full supply · ○ stored crop or reduced availability

The 5 Windows Where Egypt Faces No Real Competition

1. Sep–Nov mangoes: India and Pakistan finished, Brazil not ready — Egyptian Keitt owns it.
2. Dec–Mar strawberries: Europe’s greenhouses at minimum, Egyptian fresh fruit at peak.
3. Mar–May onions & potatoes: Europe’s stored crop is dying exactly as Egyptian new crop lands.
4. Feb–May Valencia: the volume window that made Egypt the world’s #1 orange exporter.
5. Year-round frozen: IQF strawberries, okra, and molokhia at world-leading scale, whatever the month.

How to Use This Calendar

Work backwards from your shelf: contract each program 2–3 months before its window opens (citrus by October, strawberries by September, mangoes by May), and chain products so one relationship supplies you all year — citrus winter, onions spring, mangoes summer, pomegranates autumn. The full how-to is in the import playbook.

Worked Example: Building a 12-Month Import Program From One Origin

The calendar’s point is composability. Take a hypothetical Gulf supermarket supplier designing a year of weekly Egyptian containers: December–February — Navel oranges and strawberries share reefers; onions begin. March–May — Valencia takes the citrus slot, spring potatoes peak, mangoes are still months away. May–June — grapes open with early whites; garlic cures and ships. July–September — mango season carries the premium fruit slot end to end; sweet potatoes open in August. October–November — pomegranates bridge the autumn; late mangoes finish; the citrus cycle loads for December again. Frozen lines (strawberry, okra, molokhia, mixed vegetables) plug every gap week because they draw from cold store, not from harvest. Result in this sketch: 52 weeks, one origin, no empty container weeks — the buyer’s consolidation, documentation, and finance all standardize on a single supply corridor. That composability, more than any single crop, is Egypt’s real export product.

Three Rules for Using the Calendar

Contract before the window, not inside it. Every crop’s best pricing goes to buyers who committed in the pre-season — the calendar tells you when pre-season is. Respect the edges. First-week and last-week fruit of any window carries the highest quality risk; the middle weeks carry the volume and the value. Mind the overlaps. Where two crops share reefer space and port capacity (citrus + strawberries in winter, mangoes + grapes’ tail in summer), consolidated part-loads become possible — the cheapest way for mid-size buyers to diversify a container. Product-level depth sits in each hub: citrus, mango, strawberry, and the frozen program.

Egypt Seasons — FAQ

Build Your Year-Round Program

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Sources: Tridge — Egypt production seasons · PEI Trade harvest programs.