Weather in Alexandria in October

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, October is the one. Highs average 29.3 °C, lows 19.9 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 6 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 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 29.3 °C days and 19.9 °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: 11 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 38.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 16 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 39 mm — roughly 488% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. October rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 41 mm across the twenty years measured — a 41 mm spread around an average of 8 mm. The average is real but almost no individual October looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 10.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 64%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 3.4 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 4.5 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

11.5 hours of daylight, losing 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 25.5 °C in October — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. 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.

October in Alexandria versus nearby

If Alexandria is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cairo is the weaker option in October — 2.7 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Port Said is a better bet in October — 4.3 °C cooler, 1 day more rain.

So: October works, with April the better month by 10 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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