Climate averages 1991–2020
Damietta weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Damietta: daytime highs average 17.6°C and nights cool to about 11.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 21 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Al Manzalah (31 km away). In January its highs average 18.3°C, 0.7°C warmer than Damietta, with 16 mm of rain.
Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Damietta ranks joint 101st of 107 for the warmest January highs and 104th of 107 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 107 cities is 19.3°C; Damietta is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 18.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 33 mm to 25 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
Damietta climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 17.6°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 33 | 6.9 | 10.310 h |
| February | 18.0°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 25 | 4.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 20.0°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 14 | 2.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.6°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 4.7 | 1.3 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.7°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 1.0 | 0.4 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.9°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.214 h |
| July | 30.9°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.3°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 29.7°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 0.3 | 0.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.1°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 6.8 | 1.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 23.2°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 16 | 3.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 19.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 24 | 5.0 | 10.110 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
- Al Manzalah in JanuaryEgypt · 31 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 10.5°C · 16 mm rain
- Al Maţarīyah in JanuaryEgypt · 33 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 11.1°C · 16 mm rain
- Shirbīn in JanuaryEgypt · 37 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 9.2°C · 12 mm rain
- Dikirnis in JanuaryEgypt · 42 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 8.8°C · 8.1 mm rain
- Bilqās in JanuaryEgypt · 49 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 13 mm rain
- Port Said in JanuaryEgypt · 49 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 10.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Ţalkhā in JanuaryEgypt · 58 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 8.8°C · 8.1 mm rain
- Al Mansurah in JanuaryEgypt · 59 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 8.6°C · 8.1 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 Damietta) is explained once on the Damietta year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.