Weather in Port Said in December

Prime time. December is about as good as Port Said gets. Highs average 19.1 °C, lows 17.5 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

December ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Port Said's year. May is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 26 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one. Worth keeping in perspective: December is the weakest month of Port Said's year and it is still a perfectly good one. The downside here is small.

Rain falls on only 6 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average December reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 1.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 24.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 12.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 27 mm — roughly 79% of the month's rain in one day.

December is moderately variable: 10 mm in the driest year against 89 mm in the wettest, around an average of 34 mm. Roughly two Decembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 17.6 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 68%.

How December sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 3.2 °C cooler than November, with January dropping another 2.2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Port Said's year — 10.1 hours of daylight against 14.2 at midsummer, holding steady all month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 20.8 °C in December — swimmable, but it takes a moment to commit. The sea peaks at 28 °C in August and bottoms out at 17.5 °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

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

December in Port Said versus nearby

If Port Said is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Cairo is a better bet in December — 2.4 °C warmer, 5 days less rain. Alexandria is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: December works, with May the better month by 14 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Port Said

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