When does Egypt export potatos?

Egypt ships potatos February–May, with January and June at the shoulders. These are export weeks out of the origin, not arrival weeks in your market.

When do Egypt potatos arrive in Europe?

On the Egypt → Rotterdam run, quoted at 8–13 days port to port, that window lands around week 6–24 — February–June. Add the road leg at either end.

Egypt potato export season (2026)

Egypt potato export season

Egypt ships potatos February–May, with January and June at the shoulders. Lands February–June on the Egypt → Rotterdam run.

Ships

February–May

January, June at the shoulders

Lands

week 6–24

on the Egypt → Rotterdam run, 8–13 days

Egypt potatos: 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 february–may peak · january, june shoulder
Egypt → Rotterdam 8–13 days · week 6–24	Lands week 6–24 on the Egypt → Rotterdam run

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

Load ports Alexandria, Damietta, and Port Said

Roughly January to June, landing while European stores from last season are emptying and before the new European crop is lifted.

Potatoes are the least fragile thing on this whole calendar — months of storage life, a wide temperature tolerance — so the risk here is entirely commercial. A late shipment arrives into a market somebody else’s new crop has already supplied.

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

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