Climate averages 1991–2020
Cairo weather
in January.
A mild, very dry month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Cairo: 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 3.7 mm of rain on roughly 1 day, which makes January a very dry month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 27 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shubrā al Khaymah (7 km away). In January its highs average 19.1°C, about as warm as Cairo, with 3.7 mm of rain.
Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Cairo ranks joint 48th of 107 for the warmest January highs and joint 48th of 107 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 107 cities is 19.3°C; Cairo is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 20.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 3.7 mm to 3.6 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Cairo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 19.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 3.7 | 1.1 | 10.410 h |
| February | 20.8°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 3.6 | 0.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 24.4°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 4.4 | 0.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 28.8°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 12.913 h |
| May | 33.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| June | 35.9°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.014 h |
| July | 36.7°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.914 h |
| August | 36.5°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 34.5°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 30.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 11.511 h |
| November | 25.4°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 1.9 | 0.5 | 10.711 h |
| December | 20.7°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 1.6 | 0.4 | 10.310 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
- Shubrā al Khaymah in JanuaryEgypt · 7 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 8.3°C · 3.7 mm rain
- Giza in JanuaryEgypt · 7 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 8.1°C · 3.7 mm rain
- Al Khuşūş in JanuaryEgypt · 12 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 8.6°C · 3.7 mm rain
- Awsīm in JanuaryEgypt · 13 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 8.4°C · 3.7 mm rain
- Qalyub in JanuaryEgypt · 14 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 3.7 mm rain
- Kirdāsah in JanuaryEgypt · 14 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 8.1°C · 2.9 mm rain
- Al Ḩawāmidīyah in JanuaryEgypt · 18 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 8.5°C · 3.7 mm rain
- Al Qanāţir al Khayrīyah in JanuaryEgypt · 18 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 8.3°C · 3.7 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Cairo) is explained once on the Cairo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Giza, Al Ḩawāmidīyah and Awsīm lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.