Weather in Port Said in September
Egypt · 20-year averages, September
Prime time. September is about as good as Port Said gets. Highs average 26.6 °C, lows 25.7 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.
September ranks 3 of 12 in Port Said. Only May scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.
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 September 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 September day reached 32.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 22.9 °C.
September is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest September on record still only managed 1 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 is light at 14.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 75%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.
How September sits in the year
Temperatures hold steady either side: 27.3 °C in August, 26.6 here, 25 in October. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.
Daylight in September
12.4 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 27.7 °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
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.
September 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 September — 9.9 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Alexandria is the weaker option in September — 6.1 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.
So: September is effectively as good as it gets here — 0 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
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Rain days | Rain mm | Humidity % | Daylight h | Sea °C | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.9 | 15.2 | 9 | 41 | 69 | 10.3 | 18.5 | 74 |
| February | 16.6 | 15 | 6 | 25 | 72 | 11.1 | 17.5 | 78 |
| March | 17.6 | 15.9 | 3 | 15 | 75 | 11.9 | 17.5 | 88 |
| April | 19 | 17.6 | 2 | 7 | 77 | 12.9 | 18.5 | 94 |
| May | 21.6 | 20.3 | 0 | 1 | 80 | 13.7 | 21.2 | 100 |
| June | 24.4 | 23.4 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 14.2 | 24.5 | 100 |
| July | 26.4 | 25.5 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 14 | 26.9 | 99 |
| August | 27.3 | 26.4 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 13.3 | 28 | 99 |
| September | 26.6 | 25.7 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 12.4 | 27.7 | 100 |
| October | 25 | 24 | 2 | 9 | 73 | 11.5 | 26.2 | 97 |
| November | 22.3 | 21.1 | 5 | 23 | 69 | 10.6 | 23.5 | 91 |
| December | 19.1 | 17.5 | 6 | 34 | 68 | 10.1 | 20.8 | 86 |
See all twelve months in Port Said, or where else to go in September.
Planning the rest of the trip
- Flight time to Port Said how long you are actually in the air
- Port Said time zone and the difference from home
- Days until your trip count down to the departure date