Weekly note
Sharm el-Sheikh
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Photo by Marc Ryckaert, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high38°C
Nightly low28°C
Feels like, afternoon39°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more0 · 0 mm
Humidity34%
Sunshine11.5 h/day
Daylight12.3 h/day
Days over 35°C26
Beach and sea5 of 30 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea not measured
Crowds97 / 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 Naama Bay, 11 km from the airport (SSH): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

September: about usual. Busiest in October and November; quietest in June.

Sharm el-Sheikh in pictures

What to pack

  • Light, loose clothes: daily highs average 38°C.
  • Plan the middle of the day indoors: 26 days a month pass 35°C.
  • Sun protection: about 11 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 Sharm el-Sheikh: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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