Climate and average weather in Al-Khārijah

In Al-Khārijah, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and clear.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Al-Khārijah typically varies from 8°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 4°C or above 44°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Al-Khārijah for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and early November to late December.

Hottest
Jul
40°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Mar
1 mm
Driest
Apr
0 mm
Rain / yr
2 mm
0 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
80 m
25.3°N
Clearest
Aug
2% cloud

Al-Khārijah weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Al-Khārijah, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 5.2 months, from May 1 to October 4, with daily high temperatures above 35°C. The hottest month of the year in Al-Khārijah is July, with an average high of 40°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from December 1 to February 22, with daily high temperatures below 25°C. The coldest month of the year in Al-Khārijah is January, with an average low of 8°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 14°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan218
Feb2410
Mar2813
Apr3318
May3723
Jun3925
Jul4026
Aug4026
Sep3724
Oct3420
Nov2714
Dec229

How hot and cold Al-Khārijah really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Al-Khārijah feels like about 40°C (around July 31). About 199 days a year carry some heat stress, and 83 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan212158
Feb2424810
Mar28281313
Apr33331818
May37372323
Jun39392525
Jul40402626
Aug40402626
Sep37372424
Oct33342020
Nov27271414
Dec222289

Average hourly temperature in Al-Khārijah

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 40°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Al-Khārijah weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan21° / 00.110.68.8
Feb24° / 10°00.111.19.3
Mar28° / 13°10.111.88.3
Apr33° / 18°0012.64.7
May37° / 23°0013.21.9
Jun39° / 25°0013.50.5
Jul40° / 26°0013.40.2
Aug40° / 26°0012.90.3
Sep37° / 24°0012.21.9
Oct34° / 20°0011.44.5
Nov27° / 14°0010.88.5
Dec22° / 0010.59.1

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Al-Khārijah gets about 2 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, and that barely changes with the seasons — rain is spread fairly evenly through the year.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 1 mm over about 0 wet days; April is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainFeb 5 · 0%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Al-Khārijah collects about 2 mm of rain across 0 wet days — roughly 0 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 1 mm, while April is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 81% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec00100
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Al-Khārijah, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows mild seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 25 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around November 10. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 100% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 11 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 24. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 14% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 21 · 100%Dec 6 · 85%clearmostly clearpartly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8713
Feb8713
Mar8911
Apr9010
May928
Jun991
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct973
Nov928
Dec8614

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 14, brings about 13 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 10 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.66:495:25
Feb11.16:395:46
Mar11.86:136:02
Apr12.65:406:16
May13.25:176:31
Jun13.55:116:45
Jul13.45:206:46
Aug12.95:356:29
Sep12.25:485:56
Oct11.46:015:25
Nov10.86:215:06
Dec10.56:415:07

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Al-Khārijah averages about 27 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 23 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around May 28 to Nov 4. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 24 sunny days — about 22% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 2130 daysDec 623 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan24Brilliant
Feb22Brilliant
Mar26Brilliant
Apr25Brilliant
May26Brilliant
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep30Brilliant
Oct29Brilliant
Nov25Brilliant
Dec24Brilliant

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Al-Khārijah, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May10000
Jun10000
Jul9550
Aug85141
Sep84161
Oct9190
Nov9820
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Al-Khārijah is typically light breeze, near 15 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.4 months, from around Apr 4 to Jul 15. The windiest month is June, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Nov 3 to Apr 3, with January the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJun 6 · 18 km/hJan 19 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr15light breeze
May17light breeze
Jun17light breeze
Jul15light breeze
Aug15light breeze
Sep17light breeze
Oct16light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Al-Khārijah

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Al-Khārijah sees seasonal dust haze (March–June), heaviest in May.

Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Al-Khārijah

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Al-Khārijah throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid January, Al-Khārijah is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Al-Khārijah for general outdoor tourist activities is from early November to late March, with a peak score in the third week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 19 · 9.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan8.9ideal
Feb9.2ideal
Mar8.3ideal
Apr4.7fair
May1.9poor
Jun0.5poor
Jul0.2poor
Aug0.4poor
Sep1.9poor
Oct4.6fair
Nov8.4ideal
Dec9.1ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Al-Khārijah for hot-weather activities run from mid February to late April and again from mid October to early December, with a peak score in the first week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 6 · 9.3

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Al-Khārijah, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 21°C), pack a warm layer and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Al-Khārijah sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Al-Khārijah by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Al-Khārijah peaks around August 16 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 10 at about 5 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highHighAug 16UV 11Jan 10UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5Moderate
Feb7Very high
Mar10Very high
Apr10Very high
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep10Extreme
Oct8Very high
Nov6High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Al-Khārijah

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan4.50
Feb63
Mar75
Apr85.5
May86
Jun8.56
Jul86
Aug86
Sep7.55
Oct6.53.5
Nov5.50.5
Dec4.50

Air quality in Al-Khārijah by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Al-Khārijah is worst in June — around 83 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyJun 983 µg/m³Dec 1258 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan61Unhealthy
Feb65Unhealthy
Mar79Unhealthy
Apr79Unhealthy
May82Unhealthy
Jun83Unhealthy
Jul61Unhealthy
Aug67Unhealthy
Sep80Unhealthy
Oct79Unhealthy
Nov58Unhealthy
Dec58Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Al-Khārijah is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Al-Khārijah banks about 5,453 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan137
Feb183
Mar328
Apr467
May617
Jun666
Jul708
Aug704
Sep620
Oct524
Nov321
Dec180

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Al-Khārijah receives about 6.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.4 and 8.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Mar 11 to Sep 23. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.5 kWh/m² — roughly 45% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 138.1 kWhDec 204.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar6.7Intense
Apr7.6Intense
May8.0Intense
Jun8.1Intense
Jul7.9Intense
Aug7.5Intense
Sep6.8Intense
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec4.4Bright

Where is Al-Khārijah?

Al-Khārijah sits at 25.3°N, 30.6°E, 80 m above sea level, in Egypt. The nearest listed city is Al Khārjah, 22 km away.

MūţGirgaAl BalyanāAbū ŢishtJuhaynahFarshūţSohag

Topography around Al-Khārijah

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Al-Khārijah.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Al-Khārijah has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 58 m around an average of 35 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 163 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 587 m.

The land around Al-Khārijah is covered by bare terrain (59%) and cropland (33%) within 3 km, bare terrain (91%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (99%) within 80 km.

3 km
58 m
16 km
163 m
80 km
587 m
treesshrubscroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Al Khārjah 22 km · Mūţ 160 km · Girga 181 km · Al Balyanā 182 km · Abū Ţisht 183 km · Juhaynah 184 km · Farshūţ 185 km · Sohag 185 km

Egypt travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 15% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$3,086
2025
Happiness
3.9 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
79%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.3
per 100k, 2017
Road deaths
10.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 459
Religion
Muslim 90%Christian 10%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Al-Khārijah (25.25°, 30.55°, elevation 80 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).