11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ NNE 9 km/h
Humidity 64 %
Evening
Clear sky
22°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NW 16 km/h
Gusts23 km/h
Humidity 46 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ S 18 km/h
Gusts24 km/h
Humidity 54 %
Evening
Clear sky
22°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NW 21 km/h
Gusts31 km/h
Humidity 47 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ SW 10 km/h
Humidity 60 %
Evening
Clear sky
23°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ WNW 9 km/h
Humidity 49 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
21°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ S 11 km/h
Humidity 50 %
Cairo 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)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Cairo climate: what a normal year looks like
It is a dry place: no month averages over 10 mm of rain, about 24 mm for the whole year.
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from May to October; the typical peak is 36 °C in August.
Day and night differ most in May: 32 °C in the afternoon against 18 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.
From 14 h 05 min of daylight in late June to 10 h 12 min in late December.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (31 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
19 °C
9 °C
5 mm
Feb
21 °C
10 °C
5 mm
Mar
24 °C
12 °C
5 mm
Apr
28 °C
15 °C
1 mm
May
33 °C
18 °C
1 mm
Jun
35 °C
21 °C
0 mm
Jul
35 °C
22 °C
0 mm
Aug
36 °C
23 °C
0 mm
Sep
34 °C
22 °C
0 mm
Oct
31 °C
19 °C
1 mm
Nov
26 °C
15 °C
3 mm
Dec
21 °C
10 °C
3 mm
Whole year
28 °C
16 °C
20 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 30.06° N, 31.25° 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 Cairo: pollution and pollen
4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.521µg/m³
PM1071µg/m³
O₃23µg/m³
NO₂36µg/m³
SO₂26µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Cairo
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Cairo, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Cairo yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Cairo
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 02:33 Set 17:43
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Cairo); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Cairo
Curious about the weather in Cairo on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Cairo weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Cairo, Cairo: 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 26 °C (feels like 27 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.
Expected range today: 19 °C to 28 °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.
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