Dahab weather by month

The best time to visit Dahab is April, October and November — 95/100 in April, 30°C and 0 rainy days. The best season is autumn, September to November (94/100 on average).

The worst month is December at 90/100 — nice, dry, clean air. See December →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Egypt →

Dahab🇪🇬 Egypt · Egypt & the Red Sea · Beach95
  1. 90Jan
  2. 90Feb
  3. 93Mar
  4. 95Apr
  5. 94May
  6. 93Jun
  7. 92Jul
  8. 92Aug
  9. 93Sep
  10. 95Oct
  11. 95Nov
  12. 90Dec

Best season: September to November (94/100 on average) · worst December (90/100)

Days
30°C
Nights
21°C
Wet days
0
Sun
11.7 h
Humidity
35%
Daylight
13 h
Dahab, Egypt
Photo: Sameh Solow · Pexels

Dahab, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Dahab is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.

MonthScoreTierHighRainSunCrowdsOn
Jan90S21°C1 d10 hPeak3
Feb90S22°C2 d10 hPeak2
Mar93S26°C1 d11 hPeak4
Apr95S30°C0 d12 hBusy2
May94S34°C1 d13 hBusy3
Jun93S36°C0 d13 hPeak3
Jul92S37°C0 d13 hBusy2
Aug92S37°C0 d12 hBusy2
Sep93S35°C0 d11 hBusy2
Oct95S31°C1 d11 hBusy3
Nov95S27°C1 d10 hBusy2
Dec90S23°C1 d9 hBusy2

What's on in Dahab through the year

Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.

January
  • Ramadan19 Feb – 19 MarHoliday
March
  • Eid al-Fitr20–23 MarHoliday
  • The gulf wind15 Mar – 15 Oct (usually)Season
May
  • Eid al-Adha1 May – 15 Jun (usually)Holiday
  • Sea warm enough to swim15 May – 30 Nov (usually)Season
October
  • Sinai flash floods15 Oct – 15 Mar (usually)Hazard
December
  • Christmas and New Year peak18 Dec – 6 Jan (usually)Season

Everything on in Dahab through the year →

Crowds in Dahab in April

How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.

Busyschool holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)

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Good to know before you go to Dahab

Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.

diving

The Blue Hole's reputation as one of the world's most dangerous dive sites is entirely about the Arch, a tunnel at 52 meters that lures technical divers past their limits, but entering through the Bells and drifting into the hole as a recreational diver was genuinely beautiful and not remotely as scary as the nickname suggests. We snorkeled the shallow saddle first to get a feel for the visibility before diving properly. Freediving felt like the bigger draw for a lot of people at our camp, and several signed up with local schools for proper buddy-supervised training rather than trying it alone. We went in April and the sea was calm the whole stay.
Sara M. · Read the original ↗

Traveller notes on Dahab

What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.

Dahab's forum flags April as Khamaseen season — the warm spring wind that can pick up across Egypt this time of year — though regulars say March-April and September-October actually bring some of the most consistent, manageable wind of the year for kite and windsurfing. A light layer for the evening is still worth packing, even though days are reliably warm.
Tripadvisor community · April · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Regulars are specific this marks the beginning of the hot season here, low humidity and a refreshing northerly breeze making the heat genuinely less uncomfortable than the raw temperature numbers alone would suggest. Our row backs that hot, genuinely bone-dry read, 33.7C reading as a hot 33C, over 24.1C nights feeling 22C, with rain essentially absent, 2.2mm across just half a day, and humidity down to 33 percent. Regulars are consistent the sea, the lagoon and the Blue Hole are the standard places to spend the hottest part of the day, some reports of Sinai's inland temperatures pushing past 40C even while the coast itself stays more moderate. The sea sits at a mild 24C. The record: 12.6 hours of sun, a 24.1 kph wind and AQI 65.
HotSeasonStartsBreezeMakesItBearable · May · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
June opens the stretch the dive shops here rate highest - June, July and August, partly for the fish that arrive with it - and they add the thing beginners do not expect: in June the water still feels cold to some people, warming properly by August. Our seaTempC of 26.5C is the number behind that, warm by most standards and chilly after a long dive. Above the surface there is nothing gentle about the month: 36.2C by day, 26.9C at night, and a rain column of 0.1mm. The saving grace is the air itself, 33 percent humidity, and a 25.2 kph wind that this town is always breezy with. The record: 12.8 hours of sun and AQI 62.
BestDivingColdestSurprise · June · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Forum posters consistently rate October weather in Dahab as excellent - still warm enough for comfortable swimming and sightseeing without the more intense heat of peak summer, with the Red Sea coast generally staying around 30C by day and virtually no rain expected. Posters describe the dry heat here as easily manageable, rarely tipping into genuinely uncomfortable territory even at its warmest. Posters are consistent that Dahab specifically stays breezy essentially year-round, a real factor for beach days and a draw for windsurfers and kitesurfers, though it's worth planning for if a calmer, stiller beach day is what's wanted instead.
Tripadvisor community · October · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
November in Dahab runs around 23 to 28C, and regulars add a light sweater and long trousers for the evenings, more so towards the end of the month. The wind is the month's real character: November to March is the windsurfing season here, mornings can blow hard, and the forum's line is that the strong spells are avoidable by choosing a sheltered spot rather than a different day. For diving you will want a wetsuit, easily rented in town. The sites are close in - the Islands, the reef in front of the Meridien, and the Blue Hole, which regulars discuss with respect rather than enthusiasm. The record: 26.6C days that feel like 25C, 19.6C nights, 1.3 precipitation days, humidity 49 percent, 9.7 hours of sun and a 26.3C Red Sea.
PickAShelteredSpot · November · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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