Climate averages 1991–2020
Idkū weather
in May.
A warm, very dry month: the 6th warmest and the 5th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Idkū: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 17.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 1.1 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes May a very dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 44 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rosetta (15 km away). In May its highs average 26.1°C, 1.4°C cooler than Idkū, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Idkū ranks 100th of 107 for the warmest May highs and joint 88th of 107 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 107 cities is 33.1°C; Idkū is 5.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 1.1 mm to under 1 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Idkū climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.6°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 31 | 6.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 18.4°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 21 | 4.7 | 11.111 h |
| March | 21.0°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 12 | 2.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.4°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 3.1 | 1.3 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 27.5°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 1.1 | 0.3 | 13.714 h |
| June | 29.9°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.1°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.5°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 30.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 0.5 | 0.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.7°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 6.8 | 1.7 | 11.411 h |
| November | 23.5°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 18 | 3.7 | 10.611 h |
| December | 19.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 24 | 5.1 | 10.210 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
May in nearby cities
- Rosetta in MayEgypt · 15 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 17.8°C · 0.9 mm rain
- Kafr ad Dawwār in MayEgypt · 25 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 16.9°C · 1.1 mm rain
- Fuwwah in MayEgypt · 26 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 16.8°C · 1.2 mm rain
- Damanhur in MayEgypt · 34 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 16.2°C · 1.1 mm rain
- Alexandria in MayEgypt · 38 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.5°C · 0.8 mm rain
- Disūq in MayEgypt · 39 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 16.4°C · 1.6 mm rain
- Ḩawsh ‘Īsá in MayEgypt · 44 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 16.0°C · 1.0 mm rain
- Ītāy al Bārūd in MayEgypt · 58 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 16.4°C · 1.1 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 Idkū) is explained once on the Idkū year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kafr ad Dawwār lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.