Nuweiba (Taba) weather by month
The best time to visit Nuweiba (Taba) is April, May and October — 95/100 in April, 29°C and 0 rainy days. The best season is autumn, September to November (94/100 on average).
The worst month is December at 89/100 — nice, dry. See December →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Best season: September to November (94/100 on average) · worst December (89/100)
- Days
- 29°C
- Nights
- 18°C
- Wet days
- 0
- Sun
- 11.7 h
- Humidity
- 40%
- Daylight
- 13 h

Nuweiba, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Nuweiba 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.
What's on in Nuweiba through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Nuweiba 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.
BusySham el-Nessim, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Nuweiba
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
The Egypt forum's beginner-diving thread is where Nuweiba gets its strongest endorsement: a long-time Nuweiba contributor calls it ideal for beginners because the diving is shore diving from easily accessible sandy beaches, and with fewer visitors instruction is usually one-on-one rather than in large groups; Egypt's destination expert agrees there are barely any difficult currents and that the sandy bottom makes it easy diving. April is when that coast is at its most dependable: 29.1C days, 18.3C nights, essentially no precipitation at all, 40 percent humidity, 11.7 hours of sun, a 22.1C sea and the strong seasonal breeze - around 23 kph - that the Sinai is known for.
Forum posters describe October across Egypt generally as warm enough for comfortable sea swimming without tipping into the more oppressive heat of summer - one poster specifically called the dry desert heat this time of year 'quite manageable' compared to peak season. Posters consistently name the spring (February-April) and autumn (October-November) shoulder windows as the best overall stretches to visit the country, avoiding both summer's harshest heat and winter's cooler evenings. For a coastal desert town like Nuweiba specifically, this general framing lines up well with real conditions: warm, dry, sunny days well suited to beach and diving activities on the Gulf of Aqaba coast.
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