Weather in Alexandria in December

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, December is the one. Highs average 20.6 °C, lows 12.6 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

December ranks 5 of 12 in Alexandria: past the worst of the year but short of April, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain falls on only 5 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average December reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 31 °C and the coldest night fell to 7.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 26 mm — roughly 130% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. December rainfall has ranged from 1 mm to 77 mm across the twenty years measured — a 76 mm spread around an average of 20 mm. The average is real but almost no individual December looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 11.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 68%.

How December sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 4.2 °C cooler than November, with January dropping another 1.9 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Alexandria's year — 10.1 hours of daylight against 14.2 at midsummer, holding steady all month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 20.5 °C in December — 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.

December in Alexandria versus nearby

If Alexandria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cairo is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 4 days less rain. Port Said is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: December is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind April, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Alexandria

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