Climate averages 1991–2020

Kafr ash Shaykh weather
in August.

A very hot, very dry month: the warmest and one of the driest of the year.

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

Average high 34.7°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 22.2°C Night-time mean, August

Rainfall <1 mm Almost no rain

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

August is a very hot month in Kafr ash Shaykh: daytime highs average 34.7°C and nights cool to about 22.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical August (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 17 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Basyūn (23 km away). In August its highs average 35.1°C, about as warm as Kafr ash Shaykh, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).

Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Kafr ash Shaykh ranks joint 90th of 107 for the warmest August highs and joint 1st of 107 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 107 cities is 36.4°C; Kafr ash Shaykh is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 33.3°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Kafr ash Shaykh climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kafr ash Shaykh, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	18.7°C8.9°C	8.9°C	10	3.0	10.410 h
February	19.9°C9.1°C	9.1°C	9.9	2.9	11.111 h
March	23.1°C10.7°C	10.7°C	7.1	1.4	12.012 h
April	27.3°C13.2°C	13.2°C	2.9	1.0	12.913 h
May	31.2°C16.5°C	16.5°C	1.1	0.2	13.714 h
June	33.8°C19.7°C	19.7°C	0.1	0.0	14.114 h
July	34.6°C21.6°C	21.6°C	0	0.0	14.014 h
August, selected	34.7°C22.2°C	22.2°C	0	0.0	13.313 h
September	33.3°C20.8°C	20.8°C	0.2	0.0	12.412 h
October	30.0°C18.3°C	18.3°C	3.3	0.6	11.411 h
November	25.0°C14.6°C	14.6°C	6.9	1.4	10.611 h
December	20.6°C10.9°C	10.9°C	5.6	1.9	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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Kafr ash Shaykh

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 Kafr ash Shaykh) is explained once on the Kafr ash Shaykh year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.