Weather in Cairo in March

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, March is the one. Highs average 26.3 °C, lows 10.8 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is November, and the month at the other end of the year is August.

Rain falls on only 1 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: 6 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day swings 15.5 °C from low to high, which means one bag has to cover both. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 39.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 3.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 49 mm — roughly 700% of the month's rain in one day.

March is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest March on record still only managed 74 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 Marchs brought 49 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 10.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 51%.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 4.3 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 4 °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 0.9 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. Within March itself the daily swing is 15.5 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.

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 Cairo versus nearby

If Cairo is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Port Said is the weaker option in March — 8.7 °C cooler, 2 days more rain. Alexandria is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.4 °C cooler, 1 day more rain.

So: March is the answer for Cairo. If it is booked out or priced out, November is the next best thing at 0 points behind, and August is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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