Climate and average weather in As Sanţah

In As Sanţah, the summers are humid, sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: late October to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in As Sanţah typically varies from 10°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 38°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit As Sanţah for warm-weather activities is from late October to late April.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
10°
Wettest
Feb
6 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
31 mm
9 wet days
Daylight
10.0–14.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
11 m
30.7°N
Clearest
Jul
3% cloud

As Sanţah 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 late October to late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.3 months, from May 10 to October 16, with daily high temperatures above 31°C. The hottest month of the year in As Sanţah is July, with an average high of 35°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from December 7 to March 1, with daily high temperatures below 23°C. The coldest month of the year in As Sanţah is January, with an average low of 10°C and high of 20°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in May.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2010
Feb2110
Mar2412
Apr2814
May3218
Jun3521
Jul3523
Aug3523
Sep3422
Oct3119
Nov2615
Dec2212

How hot and cold As Sanţah 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, As Sanţah feels like about 38°C (around August 14). About 147 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan2020810
Feb2121910
Mar24241212
Apr28281414
May32321818
Jun35352121
Jul37352223
Aug38352323
Sep35342222
Oct31311919
Nov26261515
Dec22221112

Average hourly temperature in As Sanţah

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 35°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 10°C.

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

As Sanţah 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
Jan20° / 10°6210.27.8
Feb21° / 10°6210.98.0
Mar24° / 12°51.311.88.8
Apr28° / 14°20.612.77.9
May32° / 18°10.313.55.4
Jun35° / 21°00143.9
Jul35° / 23°0013.83.7
Aug35° / 23°0013.13.7
Sep34° / 22°0012.24.3
Oct31° / 19°20.611.26.0
Nov26° / 15°41.110.48.4
Dec22° / 12°41.1108.3

Chance of rain

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

As Sanţah gets about 31 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.

February is the wettest month by volume, with 6 mm over about 2 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainFeb 4 · 7%May 26 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb72
Mar41
Apr21
May10
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct21
Nov31
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, As Sanţah collects about 31 mm of rain across 9 wet days — roughly 3 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. February is the wettest month with 6 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 58% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6652100244
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan62
Feb62
Mar51
Apr21
May10
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct21
Nov41
Dec41

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In As Sanţah, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 14 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 29. 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 October 30 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 13. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 28% 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 22 · 100%Jan 20 · 72%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7228
Feb7525
Mar8218
Apr8614
May8911
Jun991
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct928
Nov8020
Dec7525

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 12, brings about 14 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 hours — a swing of roughly 4 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.26:585:11
Feb10.96:435:37
Mar11.86:125:58
Apr12.75:336:18
May13.55:056:38
Jun14.04:566:55
Jul13.85:076:55
Aug13.15:266:33
Sep12.25:445:55
Oct11.26:035:18
Nov10.46:284:53
Dec10.06:514:52

Sunny days

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

As Sanţah averages about 23 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 14 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around May 7 to Oct 25. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 15 sunny days — about 49% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2430 daysFeb 914 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr21Bright
May25Brilliant
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct25Brilliant
Nov18Bright
Dec16Bright

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 As Sanţah, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around June 2 to October 26. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 27 to June 1, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 1 · 100%Jul 16 · 0%oppressivecomfortablehumiddrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan991000
Feb1000000
Mar973000
Apr918000
May46441000
Jun42452191
Jul01176715
Aug0066627
Sep0838466
Oct143142130
Nov60291110
Dec955000

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.

Wind in As Sanţah is steady company: average speeds sit near 10 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 19 · 11 km/hAug 21 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep9calm
Oct10calm
Nov10calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for As Sanţah

In seasonPeak

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

As Sanţah sees seasonal dust haze (May), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit As Sanţah

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early November, As Sanţah 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 As Sanţah for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to late April, with a peak score in the third week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 18 · 8.9

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
Jan7.8ideal
Feb8.1ideal
Mar8.8ideal
Apr7.8ideal
May5.5fair
Jun3.9fair
Jul3.7fair
Aug3.7fair
Sep4.3fair
Oct6.0good
Nov8.3ideal
Dec8.3ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit As Sanţah for hot-weather activities is from mid March to late November, with a peak score in the last week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 23 · 9.1

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 As Sanţah, 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 35°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 20°C), pack a light layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, As Sanţah sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in As Sanţah 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 As Sanţah peaks around June 16 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 11 at about 3 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJun 16UV 11Jan 11UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr8Very high
May10Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct6High
Nov5Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in As Sanţah

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 June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 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)
Jan1.50
Feb3.50
Mar62
Apr74
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.55.5
Aug85.5
Sep74.5
Oct5.51.5
Nov4.50
Dec20

Air quality in As Sanţah 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 As Sanţah is worst in January — around 125 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.2× the cleanest month (July, 39 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyJan 12124 µg/m³Jul 1939 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan125Unhealthy
Feb111Unhealthy
Mar86Unhealthy
Apr66Unhealthy
May57Unhealthy
Jun44Poor
Jul39Poor
Aug42Poor
Sep48Poor
Oct66Unhealthy
Nov108Unhealthy
Dec122Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

As Sanţah 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. As Sanţah banks about 4,561 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan147
Feb158
Mar246
Apr336
May456
Jun527
Jul578
Aug584
Sep535
Oct469
Nov321
Dec204

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.

As Sanţah receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.0 and 7.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 26. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.1 kWh/m² — roughly 61% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 197.8 kWhDec 193.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.3Moderate
Feb4.2Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr6.7Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun7.8Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug7.0Intense
Sep6.0Intense
Oct4.7Bright
Nov3.6Moderate
Dec3.0Moderate

Where is As Sanţah?

As Sanţah sits at 30.7°N, 31.1°E, 11 m above sea level, in Egypt. The nearest listed city is Zefta, 12 km away.

Topography around As Sanţah

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of As Sanţah.

Within 3 km, the terrain around As Sanţah has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 12 m around an average of 9 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 34 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 228 m.

The land around As Sanţah is covered by cropland (73%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, cropland (75%) within 16 km, and cropland (70%) within 80 km.

3 km
12 m
16 km
34 m
80 km
228 m
treesshrubscroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Zefta 12 km · Mīt Ghamr 13 km · Tanta 13 km · Birkat as Sab‘ 14 km · Talā 19 km · Quwaysinā 20 km · Shibīn al Kawm 24 km · Kafr Shukr 24 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 As Sanţah (30.7461°, 31.1296°, elevation 11 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).