El Cairo Weather in December

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around El Cairo, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

Average highs run from 24°C on December 1 to 25°C on December 31, and lows from 18°C to 19°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 275 mm over about 26 wet days.

December day by day

The normal high and low for each date, in °C.

Normal low
Normal high
Reanalysis extreme high
Reanalysis extreme low

December at a glance

Average high: 24°C
Average low: 18°C
Precipitation: 275 mm
Reanalysis high: 30°CDec 30, 2015
Reanalysis low: 14°CDec 6, 2018
Daylight: 11 h 52 min to 11 h 52 min
Cloud cover: 75%
Humidity: 91%
Dew point: 19°C
Wind: 5.0 km/h

Every day of the month

A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

Date	Normal high	Normal low	Reanalysis high	Reanalysis low	Chance wet
Dec 1	24°C	18°C	28°C 2015	17°C 2007	88%
Dec 2	24°C	18°C	29°C 2002	16°C 2007	87%
Dec 3	24°C	18°C	28°C 2002	17°C 1998	88%
Dec 4	24°C	18°C	27°C 2004	17°C 2011	87%
Dec 5	24°C	18°C	29°C 1997	17°C 2018	87%
Dec 6	24°C	18°C	28°C 1997	14°C 2018	87%
Dec 7	24°C	18°C	28°C 1993	17°C 2011	88%
Dec 8	24°C	18°C	28°C 1997	17°C 1998	87%
Dec 9	24°C	18°C	28°C 2018	17°C 1998	86%
Dec 10	24°C	18°C	28°C 2015	17°C 1996	86%
Dec 11	24°C	18°C	28°C 2015	17°C 2007	86%
Dec 12	24°C	18°C	29°C 2015	17°C 1996	85%
Dec 13	24°C	18°C	27°C 2020	17°C 1995	85%
Dec 14	24°C	18°C	28°C 2020	16°C 2014	84%
Dec 15	24°C	18°C	27°C 2009	17°C 2000	84%
Dec 16	24°C	18°C	28°C 2003	17°C 1991	83%
Dec 17	24°C	18°C	28°C 2015	16°C 2011	83%
Dec 18	24°C	18°C	28°C 2017	16°C 2007	83%
Dec 19	24°C	18°C	28°C 2017	17°C 2009	84%
Dec 20	24°C	18°C	28°C 2015	16°C 2010	83%
Dec 21	24°C	18°C	29°C 2015	17°C 1999	83%
Dec 22	25°C	18°C	29°C 1997	17°C 2016	82%
Dec 23	25°C	19°C	29°C 1997	17°C 1991	82%
Dec 24	25°C	19°C	29°C 2015	17°C 2005	81%
Dec 25	25°C	19°C	30°C 2015	17°C 1994	80%
Dec 26	25°C	19°C	29°C 2015	17°C 2020	79%
Dec 27	25°C	19°C	29°C 2018	17°C 2006	79%
Dec 28	25°C	19°C	29°C 2013	17°C 1999	79%
Dec 29	25°C	19°C	29°C 2015	16°C 1999	79%
Dec 30	25°C	19°C	30°C 2015	17°C 1996	80%
Dec 31	25°C	19°C	30°C 2015	17°C 1996	80%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT-5).

December 1: sunrise 5:58 AM, sunset 5:50 PM
December 31: sunrise 6:12 AM, sunset 6:04 PM

Every day of December: sun and moon

Other months

Sources

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-26. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.