Weather in Port Said in March

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, March is the one. Highs average 17.6 °C, lows 15.9 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 9 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 falls on only 3 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 17.6 °C days and 15.9 °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: the day barely swings — 1.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 28.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 10.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 40 mm — roughly 267% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. March rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 55 mm across the twenty years measured — a 55 mm spread around an average of 15 mm. The average is real but almost no individual March looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind sits around 16.9 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 75%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How March sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 16.6 °C in February, 17.6 here, 19 in April. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in March

11.9 hours of daylight, gaining 1 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 17.5 °C in March — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. 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

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.

March 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 March — 8.7 °C warmer, 2 days less rain. Alexandria is a better bet in March — 5.3 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: March works, with May the better month by 12 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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