Climate averages 1991–2020

Kafr ash Shaykh weather
in January.

A mild, very dry month: the coolest and the wettest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 18.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 8.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 10 mm 3 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Kafr ash Shaykh: daytime highs average 18.7°C and nights cool to about 8.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 10 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes January a very dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 22 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Basyūn (23 km away). In January its highs average 18.9°C, about as warm as Kafr ash Shaykh, with 12 mm of rain.

Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Kafr ash Shaykh ranks joint 85th of 107 for the warmest January highs and 88th of 107 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 107 cities is 19.3°C; Kafr ash Shaykh is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 19.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 10 mm to 9.9 mm.

The annual picture

January 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, selected	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	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

January 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.