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Alexandria · 5,263,542 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:07

Mainly clear
21°
Mainly clear
Feels like 26°C
Wind
14 km/h
Gusts
35 km/h
Humidity
70 %
Pressure
1015 hPa
Clouds
38 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:13 Set 18:14 Day 11 h 1 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
22°21°
Feels like 25°
Wind ↑ WNW 14 km/h
Gusts 35 km/h
Humidity 60 %
21:00
Partly cloudy
22°
WNW 10
23:00
Partly cloudy
22°
WNW 8

Alexandria forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
14°18°22°26°30°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed25°21°Thu 29 Oct: max 24° · min 21° · normal 22.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 24° · min 19° · normal 22.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 25° · min 16° · normal 22.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 28° · min 17° · normal 22.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 28° · min 19° · normal 21.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 25° · min 18° · normal 21.8°Wed 4 Nov: max 25° · min 21° · normal 21.7°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu15°23°30°28°16°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Alexandria climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 100 mm of rain — less than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From April to October, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from June to September; the typical peak is 32 °C in August.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 10 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 26 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (28 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan18 °C11 °C24 mm
Feb20 °C11 °C18 mm
Mar21 °C12 °C12 mm
Apr25 °C15 °C4 mm
May28 °C18 °C2 mm
Jun30 °C21 °C0 mm
Jul31 °C23 °C0 mm
Aug32 °C24 °C0 mm
Sep31 °C22 °C1 mm
Oct28 °C20 °C7 mm
Nov24 °C16 °C15 mm
Dec20 °C12 °C19 mm
Whole year26 °C17 °C100 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 31.22° N, 29.92° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Alexandria: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.513µg/m³
PM1028µg/m³
O₃70µg/m³
NO₂9µg/m³
SO₂17µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Alexandria

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Alexandria, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Alexandria yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Alexandria

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 02:35 Set 17:52
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Cairo); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Alexandria

Curious about the weather in Alexandria on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Alexandria weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Alexandria, Alexandria: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 21 °C (feels like 26 °C) and the wind blows at 14 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 24 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Alexandria weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations