Weather in Hurghada in October

Prime time. October is about as good as Hurghada gets. Highs average 30.7 °C, lows 24.2 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 7 of 12 in Hurghada: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain is not a factor worth planning around this month. Pack for 30.7 °C days and 24.2 °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: 21 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 36.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 19.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 25 mm — roughly 1250% of the month's rain in one day.

October is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest October on record still only managed 27 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 25 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind sits around 18.4 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 56%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 2.6 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 3.9 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

11.6 hours of daylight, losing 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Hurghada's extremes of 13.8 and 10.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27.5 °C in October — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.1 °C in August and bottoms out at 22.6 °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

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 Hurghada versus nearby

If Hurghada is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Sharm el-Sheikh is the weaker option in October — 3.5 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Cairo is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: October works, with January the better month by 17 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Hurghada

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