Western Desert
When to go?
Mean 14 °C, it hardly ever rains (2 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 15 °C, it hardly ever rains (2 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 19 °C, it hardly ever rains (1 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 24 °C, it hardly ever rains (0 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 28 °C, it hardly ever rains (0 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 35 °C
Mean 30 °C, it hardly ever rains (0 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 37 °C
Mean 31 °C, it hardly ever rains (0 mm).
Against
- Extreme heathighs of 38 °C
Mean 31 °C, it hardly ever rains (0 mm).
Against
- Extreme heathighs of 38 °C
Mean 29 °C, it hardly ever rains (0 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 36 °C
Mean 25 °C, it hardly ever rains (1 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 20 °C, it hardly ever rains (1 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 15 °C, it hardly ever rains (2 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
The best months are February–April, November–December. Avoid May–October (hot, at times extreme heat).
Climate zones
- Freezing, dry
- Freezing
- Freezing, wet
- Cold, dry
- Cold
- Cold, wet
- Mild, dry
- Mild
- Mild, wet
- Hot, arid
- Hot
- Hot, wet
- Torrid, arid
- Torrid
- Torrid, wet
Mean maximum and minimum temperature and mean monthly precipitation of the season (the mean of its three months), ERA5-Land 1996–2025, at about 9 km resolution: colours are in levels (the same as the city scale) and smaller details are not real.
What is the climate like?
Area mean indicative, over the whole territory
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Mean daylight hours over the whole territory.
Spatial mean over the whole area, weighted by area (cosine of the latitude), not by population: indicative only, since the climate varies a lot within an area (coasts, plains, mountains). Look at the cities for the weather you will find.