Climate and average weather in Ibshawāy

In Ibshawāy, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: early January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ibshawāy typically varies from 9°C to 37°C, and is rarely below 7°C or above 40°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 Ibshawāy for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid April and late October to late December.

Hottest
Jul
37°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Mar
3 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
9 mm
2 wet days
Daylight
10.1–13.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
4 m
29.4°N
Clearest
Jul
1% cloud

Ibshawāy is City in Faiyum Governorate, Egypt.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Ibshawāy 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 mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.8 months, from May 12 to October 5, with daily high temperatures above 33°C. The hottest month of the year in Ibshawāy is July, with an average high of 37°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 2.9 months, from December 3 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 23°C. The coldest month of the year in Ibshawāy is January, with an average low of 9°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)
Jan209
Feb2210
Mar2513
Apr3016
May3420
Jun3622
Jul3724
Aug3724
Sep3523
Oct3220
Nov2615
Dec2211

How hot and cold Ibshawāy 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, Ibshawāy feels like about 39°C (around August 9). About 163 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)
Jan202089
Feb22221010
Mar25251313
Apr29301616
May34342020
Jun36362222
Jul38372424
Aug38372424
Sep35352323
Oct31322020
Nov26261515
Dec22221111

Average hourly temperature in Ibshawāy

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 37°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Ibshawāy 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° / 20.510.38.2
Feb22° / 10°20.510.98.6
Mar25° / 13°30.311.89.1
Apr30° / 16°0012.77.1
May34° / 20°0013.44.4
Jun36° / 22°0013.82.7
Jul37° / 24°0013.72.1
Aug37° / 24°0013.12.2
Sep35° / 23°0012.23.5
Oct32° / 20°00.111.35.8
Nov26° / 15°10.310.58.7
Dec22° / 11°10.210.28.7

Chance of rain

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

Ibshawāy gets about 9 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 3 mm over about 0 wet days; June is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainJan 23 · 2%Apr 6 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan21
Feb21
Mar10
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov10
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ibshawāy collects about 9 mm of rain across 2 wet days — roughly 1 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 3 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 72% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec22300011
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan21
Feb21
Mar30
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov10
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ibshawāy, 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 22 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 30. 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 31 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 21. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 19% 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%Dec 25 · 80%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8119
Feb8218
Mar8614
Apr8812
May8911
Jun991
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct955
Nov8515
Dec8119

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 13, brings about 13 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.36:575:16
Feb10.96:435:40
Mar11.86:146:00
Apr12.75:366:19
May13.45:106:37
Jun13.85:016:54
Jul13.75:126:54
Aug13.15:296:33
Sep12.25:465:57
Oct11.36:045:21
Nov10.56:274:58
Dec10.26:504:57

Sunny days

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

Ibshawāy averages about 25 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 19 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around May 20 to Oct 29. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 19 sunny days — about 35% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2230 daysJan 1319 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar23Bright
Apr23Brilliant
May26Brilliant
Jun30Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep30Brilliant
Oct28Brilliant
Nov22Bright
Dec21Bright

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 Ibshawāy, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around June 17 to October 20. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 91% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 21 to June 16, 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 7 · 100%Aug 16 · 7%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar982000
Apr982000
May8218100
Jun22532320
Jul12160180
Aug0958321
Sep22857130
Oct21472920
Nov7322500
Dec973000

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 Ibshawāy is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around Mar 12 to Oct 19. The windiest month is June, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 20 to Mar 11, with December the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 16 · 13 km/hDec 27 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar11calm
Apr12calm
May13light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug12calm
Sep12light breeze
Oct11calm
Nov10calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Ibshawāy

In seasonPeak

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

Ibshawāy sees seasonal dust haze (April–May), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit Ibshawāy

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Ibshawāy 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 Ibshawāy for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to mid April, with a peak score in the second week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 8 · 9.3

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
Jan8.2ideal
Feb8.6ideal
Mar9.1ideal
Apr7.1good
May4.4fair
Jun2.7poor
Jul2.1poor
Aug2.2poor
Sep3.5fair
Oct5.9good
Nov8.6ideal
Dec8.7ideal

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 Ibshawāy for hot-weather activities run from early March to late May and again from mid September to late November, with a peak score in the second week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 12 · 9.2

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 Ibshawāy, 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 37°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, Ibshawāy sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Ibshawāy 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 Ibshawāy peaks around July 17 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 12 at about 3 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJul 17UV 11Jan 12UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar7Very high
Apr8Very high
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct7High
Nov5Moderate
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Ibshawāy

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 July 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)
Jan2.50
Feb40
Mar6.53
Apr7.54.5
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep74.5
Oct62.5
Nov4.50
Dec30

Air quality in Ibshawāy 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 Ibshawāy is worst in January — around 89 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.7× the cleanest month (July, 33 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 1787 µg/m³Jul 2133 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan89Unhealthy
Feb80Unhealthy
Mar69Unhealthy
Apr57Unhealthy
May50Poor
Jun39Poor
Jul33Moderate
Aug34Moderate
Sep39Poor
Oct47Poor
Nov67Unhealthy
Dec77Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ibshawāy 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. Ibshawāy banks about 4,916 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan145
Feb166
Mar274
Apr381
May514
Jun578
Jul635
Aug641
Sep571
Oct490
Nov324
Dec197

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.

Ibshawāy receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.5 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Mar 16 to Sep 26. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.6 kWh/m² — roughly 56% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 188.0 kWhDec 193.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.8Moderate
Feb4.7Bright
Mar6.0Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May7.7Intense
Jun8.0Intense
Jul7.9Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.4Intense
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.1Bright
Dec3.5Moderate

Where is Ibshawāy?

Ibshawāy sits at 29.4°N, 30.7°E, 4 m above sea level, in Egypt. The nearest listed city is Yūsuf aṣ-Ṣiddīq, 12 km away.

Topography around Ibshawāy

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ibshawāy has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 56 m around an average of 4 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 87 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 502 m.

The land around Ibshawāy is covered by cropland (46%) and trees (39%) within 3 km, cropland (57%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (76%) within 80 km.

3 km
56 m
16 km
87 m
80 km
502 m
treescroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Yūsuf aṣ-Ṣiddīq 12 km · Al Fayyum 17 km · Iţsā 17 km · Sinnūris 19 km · Ţāmiyah 30 km · Ihnāsyā al Madīnah 39 km · Ihnāsīyah 44 km · Būsh 49 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 Ibshawāy (29.359°, 30.6806°, elevation 4 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).