Weather in Cairo in February

Prime time. February is about as good as Cairo gets. Highs average 22 °C, lows 8.6 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 4 of 12 in Cairo: past the worst of the year but short of March, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

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 February day reached 35.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 2.3 °C.

February is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest February on record still only managed 19 mm, and the driest managed 1 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 Februarys brought 12 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 9.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 56%.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.2 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 4.3 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in February

11.1 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Cairo's extremes of 14.1 and 10.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 31.8 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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.

February in Cairo versus nearby

If Cairo is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Port Said is the weaker option in February — 5.4 °C cooler, 4 days more rain. Alexandria is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.1 °C cooler, 2 days more rain.

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

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