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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Nuweiba🇪🇬 Egypt · Egypt & the Red Sea · Beach95
  1. 89Jan
  2. 90Feb
  3. 91Mar
  4. 95Apr
  5. 94May
  6. 94Jun
  7. 93Jul
  8. 92Aug
  9. 93Sep
  10. 95Oct
  11. 94Nov
  12. 89Dec

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, Egypt
Photo: Rewan Ahmed · Pexels

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.

MonthScoreTierHighRainSunCrowdsOn
Jan89A20°C1 d10 hPeak1
Feb90S21°C2 d10 hPeak1
Mar91S25°C1 d11 hBusy1
Apr95S29°C0 d12 hBusy1
May94S33°C0 d13 hPeak2
Jun94S36°C0 d13 hPeak2
Jul93S37°C0 d13 hPeak2
Aug92S37°C0 d12 hPeak2
Sep93S35°C0 d11 hBusy1
Oct95S31°C0 d11 hPeak—
Nov94S26°C1 d10 hShoulder—
Dec89A22°C1 d9 hQuiet—

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.

January
  • Ramadan25 Jan – 25 Mar (usually)Holiday
April
  • Sham el-Nessim1 Apr – 15 May (usually)Holiday
May
  • Eid al-Adha1 May – 15 Jun (usually)Holiday
June
  • Gulf of Aqaba summer15 Jun – 10 Sep (usually)Season
July
  • Egyptian summer holidays1 Jul – 31 AugSeason

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)

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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.
SinaiShoreDiver · April · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
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.
Tripadvisor community · October · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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