September
September · May · June
United States · 1991–2020
September leads for comfortable weather in Cairo: typically 25.8°C by day, 14.1°C at night, with 100 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
September · May · June
August · July · June
October · April · May
The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 80 — days reach only 3°C, 21° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.
Month by month
The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3°C | -6.8°C | 49 mm | 5.2 | 9 h 40 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| February | 5.9°C | -4.5°C | 53 mm | 5.4 | 10 h 39 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| March | 12.5°C | 1.1°C | 84 mm | 8.1 | 11 h 49 | 26 | Strong coverage |
| April | 18.9°C | 7.1°C | 116 mm | 9.7 | 13 h 11 | 52 | Strong coverage |
| May | 23.5°C | 12.5°C | 129 mm | 10.4 | 14 h 19 | 74 | Strong coverage |
| June | 28.3°C | 17.5°C | 131 mm | 8.5 | 14 h 56 | 63 | Strong coverage |
| July | 30.5°C | 19.7°C | 115 mm | 6.9 | 14 h 42 | 55 | Strong coverage |
| August | 29.8°C | 18.6°C | 100 mm | 6.6 | 13 h 43 | 62 | Strong coverage |
| September | 25.8°C | 14.1°C | 100 mm | 6.5 | 12 h 24 | 80 | Strong coverage |
| October | 19.4°C | 7.8°C | 86 mm | 7.3 | 11 h 05 | 61 | Strong coverage |
| November | 12°C | 1.6°C | 67 mm | 6.2 | 9 h 57 | 29 | Strong coverage |
| December | 5.5°C | -3.8°C | 54 mm | 5.5 | 9 h 23 | 5 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24.4°C24 Jan 1950 | -29.4°C10 Jan 1982 | 56 mm8 Jan 2008 | 115 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1986 | 81 |
| February | 27.8°C29 Feb 1972 | -28.3°C14 Feb 2020 | 80 mm21 Feb 1997 | 140 mm1997 · driest 3 mm in 1944 | 84 |
| March | 30.6°C29 Mar 1986 | -24.4°C5 Mar 1960 | 138 mm27 Mar 2018 | 228 mm1973 · driest 7 mm in 1956 | 86 |
| April | 33.3°C20 Apr 1987 | -8.3°C6 Apr 1982 | 210 mm21 Apr 1973 | 329 mm1973 · driest 18 mm in 2018 | 84 |
| May | 35.6°C29 May 1937 | -2.2°C10 May 1966 | 100 mm24 May 1995 | 289 mm1995 · driest 18 mm in 1992 | 82 |
| June | 38.9°C24 Jun 1988 | 4.4°C4 Jun 1945 | 120 mm28 Jun 2007 | 358 mm1969 · driest 10 mm in 1959 | 83 |
| July | 44.4°C14 Jul 1954 | 8.9°C22 Jul 1947 | 206 mm9 Jul 1967 | 412 mm2008 · driest 10 mm in 1940 | 80 |
| August | 42.2°C15 Aug 1936 | 6.7°C31 Aug 1967 | 120 mm21 Aug 2010 | 273 mm1952 · driest 9 mm in 2012 | 81 |
| September | 38.9°C10 Sep 1938 | 0.0°C17 Sep 1937 | 141 mm13 Sep 1961 | 393 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 1956 | 80 |
| October | 35.6°C15 Oct 1938 | -7.8°C26 Oct 1942 | 104 mm3 Oct 1986 | 323 mm1941 · driest 1 mm in 1964 | 82 |
| November | 28.3°C1 Nov 1938 | -20.0°C30 Nov 1964 | 78 mm1 Nov 1977 | 219 mm2015 · driest 3 mm in 1989 | 82 |
| December | 23.3°C16 Dec 2021 | -28.9°C22 Dec 1989 | 75 mm2 Dec 1982 | 170 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 1949 | 81 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 2 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 2 |
| March | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | <1 |
| April | 5 | <1 | 3 | 4 | <1 |
| May | 14 | 2 | <1 | 4 | 0 |
| June | 25 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| July | 29 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| August | 28 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| September | 17 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| October | 6 | <1 | 3 | 3 | <1 |
| November | <1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | <1 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 2 |
The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 81); on 2011–2025 it is September (85). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | <1% | 16% | 4% | 12% | -0.5–6.6°C |
| February | 3% | 19% | 5% | 16% | 1.1–9.1°C |
| March | 14% | 25% | 8% | 27% | 8.7–15.5°C |
| April | 35% | 30% | 11% | 39% | 16.0–22.2°C |
| May | 58% | 32% | 13% | 39% | 21.9–26.3°C |
| June | 72% | 27% | 13% | 31% | 26.9–30.6°C |
| July | 79% | 21% | 10% | 19% | 29.1–33.2°C |
| August | 78% | 22% | 10% | 20% | 28.3–32.8°C |
| September | 74% | 20% | 9% | 21% | 23.8–28.5°C |
| October | 45% | 22% | 9% | 23% | 17.4–22.9°C |
| November | 12% | 19% | 7% | 16% | 8.6–14.9°C |
| December | 1% | 18% | 5% | 15% | 2.0–8.3°C |
A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.
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