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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Ashmūn
Ashmūn climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Feb–Mar · Dec
Annual mean23°day and night
Seasonal swing15°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation22 mm12 wet days a year
30.30° N, 30.98° EElevation 19 mUTC+3 · Eastern European Summer Time
When to goAshmūn · weather score
Best timeFeb–Mar · Dec
October: high / low30° / 20°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Ashmūn has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 35° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 19° and lows of 10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 22 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (5 mm, 3 wet days) and August the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 3% in June to 22% in January.
Compared with Cairo, the capital, Ashmūn is 0.3° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 35° · July
- Coldest nights
- 10° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- June · 3% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 05 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 12 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 19° | 21° | 24° | 28° | 32° | 35° | 35° | 35° | 34° | 30° | 25° | 21° |
| Average low | 10° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 20° | 16° | 12° |
| Precipitation | 5 mm | 5 mm | 4 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 2 mm | 3 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 2.8 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| Cloud cover | 22% | 19% | 17% | 15% | 12% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 9% | 17% | 22% |
| Daylight | 10h 24 | 11h 07 | 11h 57 | 12h 54 | 13h 40 | 14h 05 | 13h 55 | 13h 16 | 12h 22 | 11h 28 | 10h 39 | 10h 12 |
| Month score | 93 | 95 | 97 | 84 | 69 | 58 | 58 | 58 | 62 | 76 | 95 | 96 |
ivMonth by month
Ashmūn in every month
January93
19° / 10°
5 mm · 2.8 wet days
February95
21° / 11°
5 mm · 2.2 wet days
March97
24° / 13°
4 mm · 1.2 wet day
April84
28° / 16°
1 mm · 1.1 wet day
May69
32° / 19°
1 mm · 0.3 wet days
June58
35° / 22°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
July58
35° / 24°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
August58
35° / 24°
0 mm · 0 wet days
September62
34° / 23°
0 mm · 0 wet days
October76
30° / 20°
1 mm · 0.7 wet day
November95
25° / 16°
2 mm · 1.7 wet days
December96
21° / 12°
3 mm · 1.6 wet days