Egypt Climate Weather Guide. The climate is a major factor when choosing where to live or buy a property overseas. This guide on Egypt provides useful climate information. Egypt is situated in north eastern Africa. It has long coastlines on the Mediterranean and on the Red Sea. Egypt is one of the hottest and sunniest countries in the world. With the exception of a strip about 80 km wide along the Mediterranean coast, Egypt has a desert climate, being entirely within the Sahara.
The Mediterranean coastal strip has an average annual rainfall of 100-200 mm. Over the rest of Egypt, roughly south of Cairo, the annual rainfall is a mere 25-50 mm.
The climate of the Mediterranean coastal strip including Alexandria in the winter from November to March may be quite variable with some cloudy days with rain and disturbed weather. For much of the time, however, the winter weather is warm and sunny, but some cold days occur when northerly winds are strong. Summers are sunny and hot, but the daytime temperature is modified by strong sea breezes on the coast.
The weather by the coast can be unpleasant between March and early June, when a weak depression draws very hot air from the Sahara towards the coast. These hot dry khamsin winds are often dust laden and may raise sand particles in the desert that obscure visibility and irritate eyes, nose, and mouth. Virtually any part of Egypt can experience such winds.
Winters are generally warm in the south of Egypt, Aswan, but temperatures fall rather abruptly at night so that desert evenings in winter can be quite chilly. Farther north the nights can be distinctly chilly and occasional ground frost is not unknown. The heat of southern Egypt in summer is fierce, the very low humidity, however, makes the heat more bearable. Daily sunshine hours average about twelve in summer to between eight and ten in winter.
Sharm El Sheikh along the coast of the Red Sea in the Sinai area is hot in summer and pleasantly warm in winter. Average temperatures during winter range from 15 to 35°C and during the summer from 20 to 45°C. The temperature of the Red Sea ranges from 21 to 28°C throughout the year.
View Property for sale in Egypt
