Weather in Alexandria in March

Prime time. March is about as good as Alexandria gets. Highs average 22.9 °C, lows 11.8 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 2 of 12 in Alexandria. Only April scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 2 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

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 36.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 32 mm — roughly 356% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. March rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 70 mm across the twenty years measured — a 70 mm spread around an average of 9 mm. The average is real but almost no individual March looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 11.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 63%.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 3.3 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in March

11.9 hours of daylight, gaining 1 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 17.3 °C in March — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. 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.

March 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 — 3.4 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Port Said is the weaker option in March — 5.3 °C cooler, 1 day more rain.

So: March is effectively as good as it gets here — 1 points behind April, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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