Climate averages 1991–2020

Ash Shuhadā’ weather
in January.

A mild, very dry month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 19.2°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 8.4°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 4.6 mm 1 day with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Ash Shuhadā’ · average highYear overview

January is a mild month in Ash Shuhadā’: daytime highs average 19.2°C and nights cool to about 8.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 4.6 mm of rain on roughly 1 day, which makes January a very dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 24 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Talā (10 km away). In January its highs average 19.1°C, about as warm as Ash Shuhadā’, with 6.6 mm of rain.

Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Ash Shuhadā’ ranks joint 48th of 107 for the warmest January highs and joint 65th of 107 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 107 cities is 19.3°C; Ash Shuhadā’ is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 20.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 4.6 mm to 5.0 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 510152025303540 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 500

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

Every month, side by side

Ash Shuhadā’ climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Ash Shuhadā’, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 19.2°C8.4°C8.4°C4.61.410.410 h
February 20.6°C8.8°C8.8°C5.01.511.111 h
March 24.1°C10.5°C10.5°C4.70.912.012 h
April 28.5°C13.1°C13.1°C1.20.312.913 h
May 32.6°C16.5°C16.5°C0.60.213.714 h
June 35.4°C19.4°C19.4°C00.014.114 h
July 36.1°C21.2°C21.2°C00.013.914 h
August 35.9°C21.7°C21.7°C00.013.313 h
September 34.4°C20.4°C20.4°C0.10.012.412 h
October 30.8°C17.9°C17.9°C1.80.411.511 h
November 25.5°C14.1°C14.1°C2.90.810.611 h
December 20.9°C10.3°C10.3°C2.70.710.210 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 Ash Shuhadā’

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 Ash Shuhadā’) is explained once on the Ash Shuhadā’ year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Shibīn al Kawm, Munūf and Sirs al Layyānah lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.