Climate averages 1991–2020

Sirs al Layyānah weather
in August.

A very hot, very dry month: the 2nd warmest and one of the driest of the year.

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

Average high 36.2°C Daytime mean, August

Average low 21.7°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 Sirs al Layyānah: daytime highs average 36.2°C and nights cool to about 21.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

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 15 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Munūf (4 km away). In August its highs average 36.1°C, about as warm as Sirs al Layyānah, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).

Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Sirs al Layyānah ranks joint 51st 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; Sirs al Layyānah is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 1.7°C to 34.6°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

Sirs al Layyānah climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sirs al Layyānah, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	19.2°C8.3°C	8.3°C	4.6	1.4	10.410 h
February	20.7°C8.7°C	8.7°C	5.0	1.5	11.111 h
March	24.3°C10.6°C	10.6°C	4.7	0.9	12.012 h
April	28.6°C13.2°C	13.2°C	1.2	0.3	12.913 h
May	32.8°C16.7°C	16.7°C	0.6	0.2	13.714 h
June	35.7°C19.5°C	19.5°C	0	0.0	14.114 h
July	36.4°C21.2°C	21.2°C	0	0.0	13.914 h
August, selected	36.2°C21.7°C	21.7°C	0	0.0	13.213 h
September	34.6°C20.4°C	20.4°C	0.1	0.0	12.412 h
October	30.9°C17.8°C	17.8°C	1.8	0.4	11.511 h
November	25.5°C14.0°C	14.0°C	2.9	0.8	10.611 h
December	20.9°C10.1°C	10.1°C	2.7	0.7	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 Sirs al Layyānah

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 Sirs al Layyānah) is explained once on the Sirs al Layyānah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Shibīn al Kawm, Munūf and Ash Shuhadā’ lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.