Egypt as a travel destination is exceptional all year round. It offers wildlife, Classical Holidays ( exploring the culture and history of Egypt) Religious Tour (Islamic tours, Holy Family
Route, the Exodus Route and unstructured religious tours) Golfing Tours, Fishing Expeditions Nature Tours (in the Sinai) Beach Vacations Scuba diving vacations.

♦ The low season in Egypt is in September
♦ Mid season is as follows:
January 7th to March 31st
April 20th to May 31st
October 1st to December 10th

♦ Christmas, New Year and Easter are supplement periods hence the rates are also high.

♦ High Season is the Northern Summer period as follows
June 1st to August 31st

Climate

Throughout Egypt, days are commonly warm or hot, and nights are cool and the country only has two seasons: a mild winter from November to April and a hot summer from May to October. The only differences between the seasons are variations in daytime temperatures and changes in prevailing winds.

Temperatures

In the coastal regions, temperatures range between an average minimum of 14° C in winter and an average maximum of 30° C in summer. Temperatures vary widely in the inland desert areas, especially in summer, when they may range from 7° C at night to 43° C during the day. During winter, temperatures in the desert fluctuate less dramatically, but they can be as low as 0° C at night and as high as 18° C during the day.

In the north, the cooler temperatures of Alexandria during the summer have made the city a popular resort. Throughout the Nile Delta and the northern Nile Valley, there are occasional winter cold spells accompanied by light frost and even snow. At Aswan, in the south, June temperatures can be as low as 10° C at night and as high as 41° C during the day when the sky is clear.

Precipitation

Egypt receives fewer than eighty millimetres of precipitation annually in most areas. Most rain falls along the coast, but even the wettest area, around Alexandria, receives only
about 200 millimetres of precipitation per year. Alexandria has relatively high humidity, but sea breezes help keep the moisture down to a comfortable level.

Cairo receives a little more than one centimetre of precipitation each year. The city, however, reports humidity as high as 77 percent during the summer. But during the rest of the
year, humidity is low. The areas south of Cairo receive only traces of rainfall. Some areas will go years without rain and then experience sudden downpours that result in flash
floods.

The Sinai Peninsula receives somewhat more rainfall (about twelve centimetres annually in the north) than the other desert areas, and the region is dotted by numerous wells and oases, which support small population centres that formerly were focal points on trade routes. Water drainage toward the Mediterranean Sea from the main plateau supplies
sufficient moisture to permit some agriculture in the coastal area, particularly near Al Arish.

Winds

A phenomenon of the Egyptian climate is the hot spring wind that blows across the country. The winds, known to Europeans as the Sirocco and to Egyptians as the Khamsin, usually arrive in April but occasionally occur in March and May. The winds form in small but vigorous low-pressure areas in the Isthmus of Suez and sweep across the northern
coast of Africa.

Unobstructed by geographical features, the winds reach high velocities and carry great quantities of sand and dust from the deserts. These sandstorms, often accompanied by winds of up to 140 kilometres per hour, can cause temperatures to rise as much as 20° C in two hours.

Birdwatching: - A number of habitats in Egypt are especially suitable for bird populations including, of course, the lush Nile River Valley, but others as well. There are about 150 resident breeding bird in Egypt which belong mainly to two zoogeographical regions consisting of Palaearctic and Ethiopian. They are confined to the Nile Valley, the Delta and to some of the western Oases.

Egypt is a migration corridor which attracts some 280 additional species of birds. It occupies a unique geographical location as a bridge between the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa and therefore millions of birds pass through the country on their way from Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Siberia and Central Asia to eastern and southern Africa each autumn, and on their way back each spring. Migration begins in the Winter months, when from about mid February, the first wave of storks and raptors can be seen.

Summer migration begins in early August when water bird migration begins at Zaranik in North Sinai and White Stork migration begins in the southern Gulf of Suez.