Weather in Cairo in October

A good month. October works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 32 °C, lows 18.3 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 7 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 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 32 °C days and 18.3 °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: 23 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 41.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 12.5 °C.

October is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest October on record still only managed 38 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 Octobers brought 15 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 10.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 56%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 4.5 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 5.5 °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 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

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

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

October in Cairo versus nearby

If Cairo is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Port Said is a better bet in October — 7 °C cooler, 1 day more rain. Alexandria is a better bet in October — 2.7 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: October is a compromise. March is 22 points better and is what Cairo is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Cairo

See all twelve months in Cairo, or where else to go in October.