Climate averages 1991–2020
Minya weather
in January.
A mild, very dry month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Minya: daytime highs average 19.1°C and nights cool to about 7.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 1.0 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes January a very dry month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 34 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Abū Qurqāş (20 km away). In January its highs average 19.5°C, about as warm as Minya, with 1.0 mm of rain.
Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Minya ranks joint 59th of 107 for the warmest January highs and joint 24th of 107 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 107 cities is 19.3°C; Minya is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 21.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 1.0 mm to under 1 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
Minya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 19.1°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 1.0 | 0.2 | 10.611 h |
| February | 21.1°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 11.211 h |
| March | 25.2°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 1.4 | 0.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.0°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.813 h |
| May | 34.3°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.514 h |
| June | 36.7°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.914 h |
| July | 37.4°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.714 h |
| August | 37.3°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 35.1°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 0 | 0.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 31.2°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 11.512 h |
| November | 25.4°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 0.6 | 0.1 | 10.811 h |
| December | 20.6°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 0.5 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Abū Qurqāş in JanuaryEgypt · 20 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 7.3°C · 1.0 mm rain
- Samālūţ in JanuaryEgypt · 25 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 7.4°C · 1.3 mm rain
- Maţāy in JanuaryEgypt · 36 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 7.4°C · 1.4 mm rain
- Mallawī in JanuaryEgypt · 41 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 7.2°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Banī Mazār in JanuaryEgypt · 45 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 7.8°C · 1.4 mm rain
- Dayrūţ in JanuaryEgypt · 60 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 7.3°C · 0.6 mm rain
- Maghāghah in JanuaryEgypt · 62 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 7.8°C · 1.5 mm rain
- Al Qūşīyah in JanuaryEgypt · 73 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 7.2°C · 0.6 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 Minya) is explained once on the Minya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Abū Qurqāş lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.