Climate averages 1991–2020

Armant weather
in January.

A mild, very dry month: the coolest and the joint 9th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 21.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 7.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall <1 mm Almost no rain

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Armant: daytime highs average 21.2°C and nights cool to about 7.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical January (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 44 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Luxor (13 km away). In January its highs average 21.2°C, about as warm as Armant, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).

Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Armant ranks joint 6th of 107 for the warmest January highs and joint 1st of 107 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 107 cities is 19.3°C; Armant is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 23.7°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Armant climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Armant, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	21.2°C7.4°C	7.4°C	0.3	0.1	10.711 h
February	23.7°C9.0°C	9.0°C	0.2	0.0	11.311 h
March	28.3°C12.6°C	12.6°C	0.4	0.1	12.012 h
April	33.7°C17.1°C	17.1°C	0.1	0.1	12.713 h
May	38.0°C21.7°C	21.7°C	0.2	0.0	13.413 h
June	40.1°C24.1°C	24.1°C	0	0.0	13.714 h
July	40.4°C25.0°C	25.0°C	0	0.0	13.614 h
August	40.4°C25.0°C	25.0°C	0	0.0	13.013 h
September	38.5°C22.7°C	22.7°C	0	0.0	12.312 h
October	34.5°C19.2°C	19.2°C	0.1	0.0	11.612 h
November	27.8°C13.5°C	13.5°C	0.3	0.1	10.911 h
December	22.7°C8.9°C	8.9°C	0.3	0.1	10.611 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Armant

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Armant) is explained once on the Armant year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.