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Egypt

26 cities in the atlas · 17 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Ricardo Liberato · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Cairo
Currency: EGP; Egyptian Pound
Local time: Eastern European Summer TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +20
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and F

Facts

Egypt in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Cairo
Currency: Egyptian Pound EGPToday's indicative rate: EGP 10 ≈ USD 0.187Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: ArabicSpoken: Arabic, English and French
Time zones: Eastern European Summer TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +20
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and F220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 122police123ambulance180fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 118,365,995 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 1,001,450 km²
Internet domain: .eg
Land borders: Israel Libya Palestine Sudan

When to go

Climate across Egypt

In October to April, more than half of the 22 cities with figures in Egypt have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cairo	18°	20°	25°	29°	34°	37°	39°	38°	35°	31°	25°	20°
Alexandria	18°	19°	22°	26°	29°	32°	34°	34°	32°	28°	24°	20°
Giza	18°	20°	25°	29°	34°	37°	39°	38°	35°	31°	25°	20°
Luxor	21°	24°	29°	34°	38°	41°	41°	41°	39°	34°	28°	23°
Aswān	23°	27°	31°	36°	40°	42°	42°	43°	41°	37°	30°	25°
Port Said	17°	17°	18°	19°	22°	25°	27°	27°	27°	25°	22°	19°
Suez	18°	20°	24°	28°	32°	35°	37°	36°	33°	30°	24°	20°
Hurghada	21°	22°	25°	28°	31°	33°	35°	35°	33°	30°	26°	23°
Sharm el Sheikh	21°	23°	26°	30°	34°	37°	38°	38°	36°	33°	28°	23°
Asyut	20°	23°	28°	32°	37°	39°	40°	40°	37°	33°	27°	21°
Cities good for going, of 22	19	21	21	17	5	3	3	3	3	16	22	22

Mostly sea in the model's grid cell: the highs shown run lower than on land.

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Egypt is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Egypt

All 26 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Egypt

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 3

Photographs

Egypt in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Cairo
Photo: Wael El Sisi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Alexandria
Photo: ASaber91 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Egypt

Egypt
Cairo

From the journal

Plan a trip to Egypt

Tell us where in Egypt, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

Plan a trip to Egypt All countries

Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.

Africa · Northern Africa

Egypt

26 cities in the atlas · 17 airports with scheduled flights

Plan a trip to Egypt Ask our visa desk

Photo: Ricardo Liberato · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Cairo
Currency: EGP; Egyptian Pound
Local time: Eastern European Summer TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +20
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and F

Facts

Egypt in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Cairo
Currency: Egyptian Pound EGPToday's indicative rate: EGP 10 ≈ USD 0.187Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: ArabicSpoken: Arabic, English and French
Time zones: Eastern European Summer TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +20
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and F220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 122police123ambulance180fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 118,365,995 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 1,001,450 km²
Internet domain: .eg
Land borders: Israel Libya Palestine Sudan

When to go

Climate across Egypt

In October to April, more than half of the 22 cities with figures in Egypt have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cairo	18°	20°	25°	29°	34°	37°	39°	38°	35°	31°	25°	20°
Alexandria	18°	19°	22°	26°	29°	32°	34°	34°	32°	28°	24°	20°
Giza	18°	20°	25°	29°	34°	37°	39°	38°	35°	31°	25°	20°
Luxor	21°	24°	29°	34°	38°	41°	41°	41°	39°	34°	28°	23°
Aswān	23°	27°	31°	36°	40°	42°	42°	43°	41°	37°	30°	25°
Port Said	17°	17°	18°	19°	22°	25°	27°	27°	27°	25°	22°	19°
Suez	18°	20°	24°	28°	32°	35°	37°	36°	33°	30°	24°	20°
Hurghada	21°	22°	25°	28°	31°	33°	35°	35°	33°	30°	26°	23°
Sharm el Sheikh	21°	23°	26°	30°	34°	37°	38°	38°	36°	33°	28°	23°
Asyut	20°	23°	28°	32°	37°	39°	40°	40°	37°	33°	27°	21°
Cities good for going, of 22	19	21	21	17	5	3	3	3	3	16	22	22

Mostly sea in the model's grid cell: the highs shown run lower than on land.

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Egypt is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Egypt

All 26 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Egypt

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 3

Photographs

Egypt in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Cairo
Photo: Wael El Sisi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Alexandria
Photo: ASaber91 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Egypt

Egypt
Cairo

From the journal

Plan a trip to Egypt

Tell us where in Egypt, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

Plan a trip to Egypt All countries

Sources for this page

All sources and licences

OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.

Egypt

Egypt in figures

Climate across Egypt

Where Egypt is

Cities in Egypt

Airports in Egypt

Large airports

Egypt in pictures

Our guides in Egypt

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Plan a trip to Egypt

Egypt

Egypt in figures

Climate across Egypt

Where Egypt is

Cities in Egypt

Airports in Egypt

Large airports

Egypt in pictures

Our guides in Egypt

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The best time to visit Egypt: Cairo, Luxor and Aswan, month by month

Visas and entry

Plan a trip to Egypt