When does Egypt export pomegranates?

Egypt ships pomegranates September–November, with August and December at the shoulders. These are export weeks out of the origin, not arrival weeks in your market.

When do Egypt pomegranates arrive in Europe?

On the Egypt → Rotterdam run, quoted at 8–13 days port to port, that window lands around week 36–50 — September–December. Add the road leg at either end.

Egypt pomegranate export season (2026)

Egypt pomegranate export season

Egypt ships pomegranates September–November, with August and December at the shoulders. Lands September–December on the Egypt → Rotterdam run.

Ships

September–November

August, December at the shoulders

Lands

week 36–50

on the Egypt → Rotterdam run, 8–13 days

Egypt pomegranates: the export window by month, and the weeks each lane lands it.
Stage	Month J F M A M J J A S O N D
Ships out of Egypt	Ships september–november peak · august, december shoulder
Egypt → Rotterdam 8–13 days · week 36–50	Lands week 36–50 on the Egypt → Rotterdam run

Peak Shoulder Landing Port to port, across services rather than one schedule. Add the road leg at either end.

Varieties Wonderful, Baladi Load ports Alexandria, Damietta, and Port Said

Roughly August to December. The harvest itself is short — about September to November — but pomegranates store for months afterwards, so the shipping season outlasts the picking by a wide margin.

That storability makes this one of the least stressful reefer programmes on the page. The exposure is at the other end: a container nobody is in a hurry to collect is a container accruing demurrage on cargo that would have been fine either way.

Last reviewed August 2026. Editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule. Weather moves them, sometimes by weeks.

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