Weather in Sharm el-Sheikh in November

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, November is the one. Highs average 29.1 °C, lows 21.4 °C, and rain falls on 1 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

November ranks 5 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 falls on only 1 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 29.1 °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: 11 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 36.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 13.9 °C.

November is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest November on record still only managed 21 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 Novembers brought 14 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 12.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 46%.

How November sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.1 °C cooler than October, with December dropping another 4.3 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in November

November sits at the dark end of Sharm el-Sheikh's year — 10.8 hours of daylight against 13.9 at midsummer, losing 0.6 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 26.3 °C in November — 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

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.

November 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 November — 2.3 °C cooler, 1 day less rain. Cairo is a better bet in November — 2.6 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: November works, with January the better month by 11 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Sharm el-Sheikh

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