Cairo weather history
Live conditions, the day's high and low compared with the long-term normal, monthly climate averages, all-time records and the city's warming trend since 1940 — all on one page for Cairo, Egypt.
Right now
What it's doing today vs the historical normal for this date.
Right now
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36°21°36°21°37°23°34°21°37°21°40°23°37°21°On this date — June 4
Warmer than usual · 2.4°C above the normal high
- Record high: 43.9° · 2014
- Record low: 14.6° · 1943
- One year ago: 32.0°
Every June 4 in history — coldest to hottest
Dots show daily highs (top) and lows (bottom) for each June 4 on record (n = 86). Outlined dots are today's forecast.
Next 24 hours
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32°30°28°26°25°24°23°23°22°22°21°22°23°26°29°32°33°35°35°36°36°Last 30 days
8 of the last 25 days were warmer than the historical normal for that date. Average difference: −0.5°C.
Each bar is one day, from morning low to afternoon high. Warm-colored bars are days whose mean ran above normal; cool bars ran below. The dot inside the bar is the daily mean. The shaded band is the typical 10–90% range expected for that date. Normal = the day's mean temperature averaged across every year of record (1940–2026) for that calendar date.
Climate
What a typical year looks like — built from the full record.Monthly temperature range
July is the warmest month, January the coolest — a yearly swing of 16°C.
Each bar is the average daily low → average daily high for that month. Color shifts cool→warm by month temperature. The dot is the monthly mean. Normal = each month's value averaged across every year of record (1940–2026).
Monthly rainfall
Wettest month: January (~5 mm). Whole year averages ~26 mm of rain.
Average total millimetres of rainfall in each calendar month, across the full record.
Climate snapshot of Cairo
The warmest month of the year in Cairo is July, with a daily mean around 28.7°C and typical afternoon highs of 35.6°C. The coolest is January, when daily means drop to roughly 13.1°C and overnight lows hover around 8.0°C. Between the two extremes the climate moves through a fairly predictable seasonal cycle that you can see in the monthly chart below.
Total annual precipitation in Cairo averages about 26 mm. The wettest month is usually January with around 5 mm of rain, while July is the driest at roughly 0 mm. The split between wet and dry seasons gives a quick sense of when umbrellas and waterproof shoes are most useful.
Over the full record (since 1940), the annual mean temperature in Cairo has shifted by +1.7°C between the first decade and the last. The hottest single day ever measured was 46.5°C in 1970; the coldest, -1.1°C in 1950.
Monthly wind
Average daily peak wind at 10 m, by month.
Monthly solar energy
Average daily incoming solar energy in megajoules per square metre — a measured proxy for how sunny the month is.
Monthly reference table
Numerical reference: average highs/lows, mean rainfall, and absolute records for each month of the year. Normal = each month's value averaged across every year of record (1940–2026).
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rain | Record high | Record low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.0° | 8.0° | 5 mm | 29.1° (1971) | -1.1° (1942) |
| February | 20.6° | 8.9° | 4 mm | 34.2° (1958) | -1.1° (1950) |
| March | 23.8° | 11.0° | 4 mm | 38.9° (1958) | 3.1° (1948) |
| April | 28.4° | 14.1° | 1 mm | 42.5° (1979) | 5.9° (1948) |
| May | 32.4° | 17.5° | 1 mm | 46.5° (1970) | 10.9° (1944) |
| June | 35.0° | 20.2° | 0 mm | 46.0° (1961) | 14.1° (1943) |
| July | 35.6° | 21.6° | 0 mm | 43.7° (1995) | 17.4° (1991) |
| August | 35.3° | 22.1° | 0 mm | 43.6° (1945) | 16.8° (1949) |
| September | 33.3° | 20.6° | 0 mm | 43.1° (1978) | 13.6° (1949) |
| October | 30.0° | 17.9° | 2 mm | 42.5° (1943) | 11.2° (1951) |
| November | 25.1° | 13.8° | 3 mm | 37.7° (1941) | 3.2° (1953) |
| December | 20.5° | 9.6° | 5 mm | 32.0° (1956) | 1.8° (1970) |
How it has changed
Year-by-year signals from 1940 to today.Climate stripes
Annual mean shifted from 1940–1949 to 2016–2025 by +1.7°C.
Each vertical stripe is one year. Color encodes how much that year's annual mean differed from the long-term average. Normal = each year's annual mean compared to the average of all years (1940–2026). cooler ← → warmer
Hot days vs frost days
Days ≥ 30°C per year: 176.2 early in the record → 182.2 recently. Frost days: 0 → 0.
Thin lines are raw yearly counts; thick lines are the smoothed trend that removes year-to-year noise. The hot-day threshold is auto-picked per city so the line actually moves. Normal = a centered 5-year rolling average to smooth weather noise.
Yearly hot & cold extremes
All-time high in 1970, all-time low in 1950: 46.5°C / -1.1°C.
One point per year — the single hottest and coldest day recorded that year.
Annual rainfall
~26 mm/year on average. Last decade ran +7% vs that average.
One bar per year of total rainfall. Dashed line is the long-term average. Normal = the average annual rainfall across every year of record (1940–2026).
Day-by-day grid
Each tiny square is one calendar day across the full record — ~30,000 days per city. Use the mode switch above the chart: Anomaly colors each day by how far it ran from the historical normal for that date (red = warmer, blue = cooler), Daily mean temp shows the absolute mean temperature for the day (useful to see seasons and heatwaves), and Precipitation shows daily rainfall (useful to spot wet/dry seasons and droughts). Normal = the long-term average for that calendar date (1940–2026).