Climate averages 1991–2020
Sohag weather
in May.
A very hot, very dry month: the 5th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a very hot month in Sohag: daytime highs average 36.9°C and nights cool to about 20.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical May (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 26 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Al Minshāh (14 km away). In May its highs average 37.1°C, about as warm as Sohag, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Sohag ranks 12th of 107 for the warmest May highs and joint 27th of 107 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 107 cities is 33.1°C; Sohag is 3.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 39.1°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Sohag climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.5°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 10.711 h |
| February | 22.8°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 11.211 h |
| March | 27.2°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 1.3 | 0.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 32.6°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 0 | 0.0 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 36.9°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 13.413 h |
| June | 39.1°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.814 h |
| July | 39.5°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.614 h |
| August | 39.3°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 37.2°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 33.5°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 27.2°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 1.0 | 0.1 | 10.911 h |
| December | 22.1°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 10.511 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
May in nearby cities
- Al Minshāh in MayEgypt · 14 kmHigh 37.1°C · Low 21.2°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Juhaynah in MayEgypt · 24 kmHigh 36.4°C · Low 20.9°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Ţahţā in MayEgypt · 30 kmHigh 36.5°C · Low 20.4°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Girga in MayEgypt · 31 kmHigh 37.4°C · Low 21.4°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Ţimā in MayEgypt · 47 kmHigh 36.2°C · Low 20.5°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Al Ghanāyim in MayEgypt · 51 kmHigh 35.9°C · Low 20.5°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Abū Tīj in MayEgypt · 66 kmHigh 35.9°C · Low 20.4°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Farshūţ in MayEgypt · 73 kmHigh 37.6°C · Low 21.2°C · 0.1 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 Sohag) is explained once on the Sohag year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Al Minshāh lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.