Weekly note
Hurghada: A bird's eye view of an island in the middle of the ocean

The numbers

Daily high23°C
Nightly low16°C
Feels like, afternoon20°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more0 · 0 mm
Humidity52%
Sunshine9.7 h/day
Daylight10.5 h/day
Beach and sea17 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 25 °C, warm fair
Crowds45 / 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 Sakkala and El Dahar, 9 km from the airport (HRG): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

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

Hurghada in pictures

What to pack

  • 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 Hurghada: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

December elsewhere

In December from

The other months at Hurghada

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