Weather in Sharm el-Sheikh in December

Prime time. December is about as good as Sharm el-Sheikh gets. Highs average 24.8 °C, lows 17.6 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

December ranks 3 of 12 in Sharm el-Sheikh. Only January 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

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 33 °C and the coldest night fell to 10.2 °C.

December is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest December on record still only managed 9 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 Decembers brought 6 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 13.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 49%.

How December sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 4.3 °C cooler than November, with January dropping another 1.8 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Sharm el-Sheikh's year — 10.4 hours of daylight against 13.9 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 24.5 °C in December — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. 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

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

December in Sharm el-Sheikh versus nearby

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

So: December is effectively as good as it gets here — 0 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Sharm el-Sheikh

See all twelve months in Sharm el-Sheikh, or where else to go in December.