Climate · Luxor

Luxor in May

Very hot and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Luxor is very hot: highs near 104°F, lows near 69°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 28 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Luxor is very hot: highs near 40°C, lows near 21°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 28 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
104°F40°Caverage
Low
69°F21°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 0% of days
Daylight
13h 24mon average

Is May a good time to visit Luxor?


May sits outside Luxor's best months, which run from December to February. Expect very hot days and rain on fewer than one day a week.

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 May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 104°F in May, against 74°F to 109°F through the year.Highs near 40°C in May, against 23°C to 43°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

0% of days in May, against 0% to 1% through the year.

Cloud cover

18% cover in May, against 6% to 26% through the year.

Daylight

13h 24m in May, against 10h 33m to 13h 43m through the year.

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

Either side


  1. April95°35°low 61°low 16°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  2. May104°40°low 69°low 21°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June108°42°low 74°low 23°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Luxor sits, in May

Africa/Cairo

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:04 AMsets 7:27 PM
Above the sea
80 mlow-lying
Latitude
25.7°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Aswan181 km south

The land around Luxor, shaded by its typical high in May, 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 May

high · low · wet days

  • Aswan105°41° · 74°23° 0
  • Cairo95°35° · 62°17° 0

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Luxor. 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.