Climate averages 1991–2020

Suez weather
in January.

A mild, very dry month: the coolest and the 10th driest 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 9.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 4.4 mm 1 day with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Suez: daytime highs average 18.7°C and nights cool to about 9.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 4.4 mm of rain on roughly 1 day, which makes January a very dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 27 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ismailia (74 km away). In January its highs average 18.9°C, about as warm as Suez, with 4.0 mm of rain.

Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Suez ranks joint 85th of 107 for the warmest January highs and 64th of 107 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 107 cities is 19.3°C; Suez is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 20.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 4.4 mm to 4.5 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

Suez climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Suez, 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°C9.7°C	9.7°C	4.4	1.3	10.410 h
February	20.3°C10.1°C	10.1°C	4.5	1.1	11.111 h
March	23.9°C11.7°C	11.7°C	5.2	1.1	12.012 h
April	28.4°C14.4°C	14.4°C	0.8	0.3	12.913 h
May	32.6°C17.6°C	17.6°C	0.7	0.3	13.614 h
June	35.5°C20.0°C	20.0°C	0	0.0	14.014 h
July	36.9°C22.1°C	22.1°C	0	0.0	13.914 h
August	36.6°C22.5°C	22.5°C	0	0.0	13.213 h
September	34.0°C20.9°C	20.9°C	0	0.0	12.412 h
October	30.1°C18.6°C	18.6°C	1.2	0.4	11.511 h
November	24.9°C14.9°C	14.9°C	2.4	0.8	10.711 h
December	20.3°C11.5°C	11.5°C	2.2	0.5	10.310 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 Suez

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