Hurghada: A bird's eye view of an island in the middle of the ocean — Photo by Bahaa Mourad on Unsplash

Best time to visit Hurghada

Egypt · Middle East

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Hurghada

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Beach and sea May–Jun, Sep–Nov · fair Mar–Apr, Jul, Dec

Go in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Sep or Oct — these months score within a whisker of each other; 22C max, 0 rainy days. Nov is the next best.

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Things to do in Hurghada

Mons Porphyrites Roman-period Egyptian porphyry quarry
Shaiyb al-Banat Mountain in Egypt
Mons Claudianus Roman quarry in the eastern desert of Egypt
Hurghada Grand Aquarium Building in Egypt
Sha‘ab Abū Nuhās Egyptian coral reef and dive site in the Straits of Gubal in the south of the Gulf of Suez

Tours and tickets in Hurghada

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

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Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	21°	0d	50%	9.8h	sweet spot	21C max, 0 rainy days
Feb	22°	0d	49%	10.0h	sweet spot	22C max, 0 rainy days
Mar	24°	0d	44%	11.3h	sweet spot	24C max, 0 rainy days
Apr	28°	0d	39%	11.7h	sweet spot	28C max, 0 rainy days
May	31°	0d	36%	12.5h	sweet spot	31C max, 0 rainy days
Jun	34°	0d	35%	13.0h	sweet spot	34C max, 0 rainy days
Jul	35°	0d	35%	12.9h	avoid	extreme heat: 13 days over 35C
Aug	35°	0d	39%	12.2h	avoid	extreme heat: 17 days over 35C
Sep	33°	0d	43%	11.5h	sweet spot	33C max, 0 rainy days
Oct	30°	0d	50%	10.9h	sweet spot	30C max, 0 rainy days
Nov	26°	0d	52%	10.4h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Dec	23°	0d	52%	9.7h	goodbusy	busier than usual

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at Sakkala and El Dahar, 9 km from the airport (HRG): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest in August, November and December; quietest from May to July.

Then and now

Hurghada's November days now average 26.5°C, 1.8°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 10 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	19.7°	20.7°	23.2°	26.9°	30.1°	32.7°	33.5°	33.7°	32.0°	28.8°	24.7°	21.5°
2017–26	21.2°	21.8°	24.2°	27.6°	30.9°	33.5°	34.8°	35.2°	33.3°	29.9°	26.5°	23.1°
Change	+1.5°	+1.1°	+1.0°	+0.7°	+0.8°	+0.8°	+1.4°	+1.6°	+1.3°	+1.1°	+1.8°	+1.6°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

How far Hurghada is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

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.

Being there

On arrival

Paying — Cards work in most hotels, tourist restaurants and big stores; small shops, markets, taxis and street food are cash only. Keep small notes, as change is scarce.
UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
Tipping — Small tips (baksheesh) are part of daily life: about 10% in restaurants unless service is added, and round up taxi and ride-app fares.

Getting around Hurghada

Apps — Rides: Careem, inDrive, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp. If no ride-app driver accepts a card-paid trip, switch the payment to cash.

A swarm of white minibuses (Toyota Hiace) called micro bus serve the area, with a flat fare of LE2–3 (Dec 2022). They run fixed routes, mostly along the coastal strip, picking up and dropping off anywhere along the way. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Hurghada, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

Emergency — police 122 · ambulance 123 · fire 180 · tourist police 126.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Hurghada in pictures

Boats near Paradise Island, Hurghada — i

kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Coral reefs in the Red Sea — i

kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hurghada port mosque — i

reesorts.com, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hotel beach with a small marina in Hurghada — i

Dr. Ondřej Havelka (cestovatel), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Hurghada is like

Hurghada (Arabic: الغردقة el-ğarda’a) is a resort town on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt. Famous for its superb diving opportunities, Hurghada is especially appealing to those with little experience of scuba diving, who come to marvel at the underwater reefs and awesome marine life. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: Hurghada does not have many spectacular sights except for the Red Sea. However, daily one- or two-day trips are available into both Luxor and Cairo. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: If you were to choose to stay in your hotel complex for the duration of your break, you would miss out on much more than you bargained for. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: Hurghada has frequent direct international flights from Europe including Russia, Turkey, the Gulf states, and the Far East, e.g. Bangkok. More on Wikivoyage
Staying safe: Because of the heat combined with inadequate food hygiene, gastrointestinal ailments are common (sickness and diarrhoea). The better tourist resorts do make an effort to have good hygiene, but nothing is ever certain. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Hurghada, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Hurghada

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Hurghada is in Egypt, Middle East. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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