Weather in Alexandria in May

Prime time. May is about as good as Alexandria gets. Highs average 29.9 °C, lows 17.3 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

May ranks 7 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 is not a factor worth planning around this month. Pack for 29.9 °C days and 17.3 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 13 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest May day reached 42.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 11.7 °C.

May is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest May on record still only managed 8 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Mays brought 6 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 12.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 58%.

How May sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.7 °C warmer than April, and June adds another 2.8 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in May

May is at or near the longest days of Alexandria's year: 13.7 hours of daylight, gaining 0.7 hours across the month. Evenings are the real gain — dinner outdoors still happens in full light.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 20.7 °C in May — 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

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

May in Alexandria versus nearby

If Alexandria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cairo is the weaker option in May — 4.9 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Port Said is a better bet in May — 8.3 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: May works, with April the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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