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Aswan in January

sweet spot · one of the best months to go · the coolest month of the year

The year in Aswan

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  1. Aswan in January: sweet spot
  2. Aswan in February: sweet spot
  3. Aswan in March: good
  4. Aswan in April: avoid
  5. Aswan in May: avoid
  6. Aswan in June: avoid
  7. Aswan in July: avoid
  8. Aswan in August: avoid
  9. Aswan in September: avoid
  10. Aswan in October: avoid
  11. Aswan in November: good, busy
  12. Aswan in December: good, busy
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January at Aswan is 23°C by day and 10°C at night, with 0 rainy days and about 10 hours of sun a day. 23C max, 0 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high23°C
Nightly low10°C
Feels like, afternoon19°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more0 · 0 mm
Humidity43%
Sunshine9.9 h/day
Daylight10.8 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the Corniche, 16 km from the airport (ASW): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

January: about usual. Busiest in November and December; quietest from May to September.

Public holidays in January

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Aswan in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 10°C.
  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and F plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Egyptian pound. UK Foreign Office: avoid all travel to parts, avoid all but essential travel to parts. Everything for Egypt: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Aswan: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

January elsewhere

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