Cairo weather in July

Name: Cairo
Address: EG

In July, Cairo has daytime highs averaging 37 °C, nights around 21 °C, with 0 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

36.7°C Average high
21.4°C Average low
0days Wet days
under 1mm Rainfall
14h Daylight

Daily temperatures through July

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 37.2 °C and lows bottom out at 20.6 °C.

How July develops

Averages for the first, middle and last part of the month, from daily 1991–2020 normals. Chance of rain is the share of years in which that calendar day recorded more than 1 mm.

Days	Avg high	Avg low
1–10 July	36.5 °C	20.9 °C
11–20 July	36.6 °C	21.4 °C
21–31 July	36.8 °C	21.7 °C

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in July. Wettest date over the 30 years: July 1, at 0 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure	Typical July	Share of the month
Days above 25 °C	31 of 31	100 %
Days above 30 °C	31 of 31	100 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 31	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0 of 31	0 %

Conditions in July

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	29 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	44 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	17 °C
Relative humidity	52 %
Wind speed	18 km/h
Cloud cover	6 %

Where Cairo ranks in July

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Africa in July	22ndof 50	37 °C
The driest places in Africa in July	23rdof 50	0.02 mm
The driest places in the world in July	44thof 50	0.02 mm

July compared with the months around it

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
May	32.9 °C	under 1 mm	19 %
June	35.8 °C	under 1 mm	5 %
July	36.7 °C	under 1 mm	6 %
August	36.4 °C	under 1 mm	7 %
September	34.4 °C	under 1 mm	7 %

See all twelve months for Cairo

July is the warmest month in Cairo.
It is the 2nd driest month of the year.
It ranks 2nd for least cloud cover.
Days last about 14 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0 of 31 days — 0 % of the month.
Nights are about 15 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest July day on record since 1991 reached 44 °C, 7.7 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in July

Destination	Avg high	Wet days
Cairo	37 °C	0
New Cairo	35 °C	0
6th of October City	36 °C	0
Al ‘Āshir min Ramaḑān	36 °C	0
Zagazig	36 °C	0

QuestionsJuly in Cairo, answered

How warm is Cairo in July?

Daily highs average 37 °C and nights fall to about 21 °C, a spread of 15 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes July the 2nd warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Cairo in July?

July averages under 1 mm of rain, spread over about 0 of the 31 days — 0 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 6 % of the sky.

How long are the days in July?

Cairo averages 14 hours between sunrise and sunset in July. Day length is computed from latitude and date, so it is exact rather than modelled — but it says nothing about how much of that time is sunny.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: daylight hours, beach and comfort scores, monthly rankings, threshold day counts, chance of a wet day by date, ten-day averages within the month. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.