Weather in Hurghada in September

A good month. September is a solid month to be in Hurghada. Highs average 33.3 °C, lows 25.9 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

September ranks 9 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 33.3 °C days and 25.9 °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: 30 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest September day reached 38.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 22.8 °C.

September is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest September on record still only managed 0 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 Septembers brought 0 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind sits around 21.6 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 53%.

How September sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 1.6 °C cooler than August, with October dropping another 2.6 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in September

12.4 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 28.2 °C in September — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

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.

September 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 September — 4.4 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Cairo is the weaker option in September — 3.2 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: September is a compromise. January is 28 points better and is what Hurghada 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 Hurghada

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