Weather in Alexandria in April

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, April is the one. Highs average 26.2 °C, lows 14 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is March, and the month at the other end of the year is August.

Rain falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 6 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 40.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 9.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 48 mm — roughly 343% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. April rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 93 mm across the twenty years measured — a 93 mm spread around an average of 14 mm. The average is real but almost no individual April looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 12.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 60%.

How April sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.3 °C warmer than March, and May adds another 3.7 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in April

12.9 hours of daylight, gaining 0.9 hours across the month. That is between Alexandria's extremes of 14.2 and 10.1 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 18.2 °C in April — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 27.4 °C in August and bottoms out at 17.3 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

April in Alexandria versus nearby

If Alexandria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cairo is the weaker option in April — 4.1 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Port Said is close enough to be a coin toss — 7.2 °C cooler, 1 day more rain.

So: April is the answer for Alexandria. If it is booked out or priced out, March is the next best thing at 1 points behind, and August is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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