Climate averages 1991–2020
Cairo weather
in October.
A hot, very dry month: the 6th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Cairo: daytime highs average 30.7°C and nights cool to about 18.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical October (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 28 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shubrā al Khaymah (7 km away). In October its highs average 30.7°C, about as warm as Cairo, with 1.0 mm of rain.
Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Cairo ranks joint 56th of 107 for the warmest October highs and joint 43rd of 107 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 107 cities is 30.9°C; Cairo is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.4°C to 25.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from under 1 mm to 1.9 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Shubrā al Khaymah in OctoberEgypt · 7 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 18.0°C · 1.0 mm rain
- Giza in OctoberEgypt · 7 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 17.9°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Al Khuşūş in OctoberEgypt · 12 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 18.2°C · 1.0 mm rain
- Awsīm in OctoberEgypt · 13 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 18.1°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Qalyub in OctoberEgypt · 14 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 18.0°C · 1.0 mm rain
- Kirdāsah in OctoberEgypt · 14 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 17.9°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Al Ḩawāmidīyah in OctoberEgypt · 18 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 18.4°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Al Qanāţir al Khayrīyah in OctoberEgypt · 18 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 17.9°C · 1.0 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.