Climate · Cairo

Cairo in January

Mild and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

January in Cairo is mild: highs near 70°F, lows near 47°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.January in Cairo is mild: highs near 21°C, lows near 8°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
70°F21°Caverage
Low
47°F8°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 4% of days
Daylight
10h 27mon average

Is January a good time to visit Cairo?


Yes. January is one of Cairo's best months (December to March).

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 January sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 70°F in January, against 70°F to 102°F through the year.Highs near 21°C in January, against 21°C to 39°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

4% of days in January, against 0% to 4% through the year.

Cloud cover

27% cover in January, against 1% to 31% through the year.

Daylight

10h 27m in January, against 10h 14m to 14h 03m through the year.

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

Either side


  1. December74°23°low 50°low 10°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  2. January70°21°low 47°low 8°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. February72°22°low 47°low 8°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Cairo sits, in January

Africa/Cairo

this place
typical high in January 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-January
6:52 AMsets 5:16 PM
Above the sea
20 mlow-lying
Latitude
30.0°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Luxor502 km south

The land around Cairo, shaded by its typical high in January, 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 January

high · low · wet days

  • Aswan76°24° · 48°9° 0
  • Luxor74°23° · 45°7° 0

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Cairo. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match.Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match. 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.