Weather in Sharm el-Sheikh in April

Prime time. April is about as good as Sharm el-Sheikh gets. Highs average 31.2 °C, lows 21.4 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

April ranks 6 of 12 in Sharm el-Sheikh: past the worst of the year but short of January, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain is not a factor worth planning around this month. Pack for 31.2 °C days and 21.4 °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: 19 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest April day reached 38.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 13.8 °C.

April is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest April on record still only managed 15 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 Aprils brought 8 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 12.5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and the air is dry at 38% humidity, which makes the heat far more bearable than the same figure somewhere humid — and dehydrates you faster than you expect.

How April sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.4 °C warmer than March, and May adds another 3.9 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in April

12.8 hours of daylight, gaining 0.8 hours across the month. That is between Sharm el-Sheikh's extremes of 13.9 and 10.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 23.2 °C in April — comfortable for a proper swim. The sea peaks at 29.1 °C in August and bottoms out at 22.6 °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.

April in Sharm el-Sheikh versus nearby

If Sharm el-Sheikh is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Hurghada is a better bet in April — 3.3 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Cairo is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain.

So: April is a compromise. January is 19 points better and is what Sharm el-Sheikh is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Sharm el-Sheikh

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