Climate · Aswan

Aswan in March

Hot and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

March in Aswan is hot: highs near 88°F, lows near 57°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 40 minutes from the first week to the last.March in Aswan is hot: highs near 31°C, lows near 14°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 40 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
88°F31°Caverage
Low
57°F14°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 0% of days
Daylight
11h 59mon average

Is March a good time to visit Aswan?


A good month, just outside Aswan's best months, which run from December to February.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How March sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 88°F in March, against 76°F to 110°F through the year.Highs near 31°C in March, against 24°C to 43°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

0% of days in March, against 0% to 0% through the year.

Cloud cover

19% cover in March, against 9% to 26% through the year.

Daylight

11h 59m in March, against 10h 40m to 13h 36m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with March shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side


  1. February80°27°low 50°low 10°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  2. March88°31°low 57°low 14°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. April97°36°low 65°low 18°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Aswan sits, in March

Africa/Cairo

this place
typical high in March 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-March
5:59 AMsets 5:57 PM
Above the sea
100 mlow-lying
Latitude
24.1°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Luxor181 km north

The land around Aswan, shaded by its typical high in March, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Egypt in March

high · low · wet days

  • Luxor85°29° · 53°12° 0
  • Cairo79°26° · 51°11° 0

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Aswan. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (100 m) against the climate model's (173 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (100 m) against the climate model's (173 m). Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.