Weather in Port Said in August

Prime time. August is about as good as Port Said gets. Highs average 27.3 °C, lows 26.4 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

August ranks 5 of 12 in Port Said: past the worst of the year but short of May, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain is not a factor worth planning around this month. 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average August reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 0.9 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 31.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 24.4 °C.

August is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest August 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 Augusts brought 0 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 13.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 79%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 26.4 °C in July, 27.3 here, 26.6 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

13.3 hours of daylight, losing 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Port Said's extremes of 14.2 and 10.1 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 28 °C in August — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. This is the warmest the water gets all year.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, November is the trade worth considering — 9 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

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

August in Port Said versus nearby

If Port Said is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cairo is the weaker option in August — 11.8 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Alexandria is the weaker option in August — 7.1 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

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

Every month in Port Said

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