Weather in Sharm el-Sheikh in March

Prime time. March is about as good as Sharm el-Sheikh gets. Highs average 27.8 °C, lows 18.5 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

March ranks 4 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. 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: 6 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest March day reached 35.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 10.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 44 mm — roughly 1100% of the month's rain in one day.

March is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest March on record still only managed 54 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 Marchs brought 44 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 13 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 43%.

How March sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 3.1 °C warmer than February, and April adds another 3.4 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in March

12 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 22.6 °C in March — 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

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.

March 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 — 2.7 °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: March is effectively as good as it gets here — 4 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

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