Weather in Port Said in October

Prime time. October is about as good as Port Said gets. Highs average 25 °C, lows 24 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 6 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 2 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 October reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 1 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 30.3 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.8 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 28 mm — roughly 311% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. October rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 34 mm across the twenty years measured — a 34 mm spread around an average of 9 mm. The average is real but almost no individual October looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 15 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 1.6 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 2.7 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

11.5 hours of daylight, losing 0.9 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 26.2 °C in October — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. 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

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.

October 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 October — 7 °C warmer, 1 day less rain. Alexandria is the weaker option in October — 4.3 °C warmer, 1 day less rain.

So: October is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 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

See all twelve months in Port Said, or where else to go in October.