Climate averages 1991–2020

Maghāghah weather
in April.

A hot, very dry month: the 7th warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.9°C Daytime mean, April

Average low 15.0°C Night-time mean, April

Rainfall <1 mm Almost no rain

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

April is a hot month in Maghāghah: daytime highs average 29.9°C and nights cool to about 15.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical April (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 50 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Banī Mazār (17 km away). In April its highs average 30.0°C, about as warm as Maghāghah, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).

Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Maghāghah ranks joint 31st of 107 for the warmest April highs and joint 5th of 107 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 107 cities is 29.0°C; Maghāghah is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 4.2°C to 34.1°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 mm.

The annual picture

April 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

Maghāghah climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Maghāghah, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	19.2°C7.8°C	7.8°C	1.5	0.4	10.511 h
February	21.1°C8.6°C	8.6°C	1.4	0.4	11.211 h
March	25.1°C11.5°C	11.5°C	2.3	0.4	12.012 h
April, selected	29.9°C15.0°C	15.0°C	0.1	0.0	12.813 h
May	34.1°C19.3°C	19.3°C	0.1	0.0	13.614 h
June	36.7°C21.9°C	21.9°C	0	0.0	13.914 h
July	37.5°C23.2°C	23.2°C	0	0.0	13.814 h
August	37.4°C23.5°C	23.5°C	0	0.0	13.213 h
September	35.2°C21.7°C	21.7°C	0	0.0	12.412 h
October	31.2°C18.8°C	18.8°C	0.2	0.1	11.512 h
November	25.5°C13.9°C	13.9°C	0.7	0.2	10.811 h
December	20.8°C9.5°C	9.5°C	0.6	0.2	10.410 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

April in nearby cities

Distance from Maghāghah

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 Maghāghah) is explained once on the Maghāghah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.