Luxor climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Luxor?

Luxor has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 24.5 °C and it receives 7 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Luxor?

The hottest day measured in Luxor between 1940 and 2025 was 8 June 1961, reaching 47.4 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Luxor?

The coldest day measured in Luxor between 1940 and 2025 was 3 January 1942, at -0.9 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Luxor?

Almost never: Luxor sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Luxor warmed?

Yes: Luxor warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Luxor?

The wettest day measured in Luxor between 1940 and 2025 was 31 October 1966, with 45 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Luxor?

The windiest day measured in Luxor between 1940 and 2025 was 11 May 1983, with winds reaching 39.5 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Luxor?

The warmest month in Luxor is July (32.6 °C on average); the coldest is January (13.9 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Luxor?

Luxor receives on average 7 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 1 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Luxor?

Luxor gets on average 11.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,198 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Luxor (Egypt) has a hot desert climate (BWh) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 24.5 °C and it receives 7 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is July (32.6 °C on average) and the coldest is January (13.9 °C). Rainfall peaks in October.

Luxor averages 0 frost days, 221 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 1 rainy days per year.

Luxor has warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.25 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 47.4 °C (on 8 June 1961) and the coldest -0.9 °C (on 3 January 1942).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

LuxorLuxor Governorate

coords: 25.70°, 32.64°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

BWhHot desertWarmest monthJulyColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthOctoberDriest monthJune

Mean daily temperature

24.5°C

Average daily high

31.9°C

Average daily low

17.1°C

Annual rainfall

7mm

Sunshine / day

11.5h

Mean relative humidity

33%

Average peak wind

15.9km/h

Seasonal range

18.7°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

221 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

1 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

30.3 °C

Average feels-like low

15.1 °C

Average peak gust

31.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

156 d/yr

Solar radiation

23.3 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.1 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.61 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

47.4 °C

8 June 1961

Coldest day

-0.9 °C

3 January 1942

Wettest day

45 mm

31 October 1966

Windiest day

39.5 km/h

11 May 1983

Strongest gust

71.6 km/h

13 May 1997

Hottest feels-like

48.5 °C

14 August 2025

Coldest feels-like

-5.2 °C

3 January 1942

Sunniest day

13.2 h

27 June 1941

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	45.4 °C14 August 2025	6.8 °C14 February 2025	25.7 °C	0 mm	237	0
2024	45.3 °C15 June 2024	4.7 °C2 February 2024	26.0 °C	2 mm	223	0
2023	44.3 °C8 September 2023	6.4 °C16 February 2023	26.0 °C	1 mm	231	0
2022	44.3 °C14 May 2022	3.0 °C26 January 2022	25.1 °C	2 mm	221	0
2021	45.0 °C3 July 2021	5.7 °C19 February 2021	25.8 °C	0 mm	228	0
2020	45.2 °C31 July 2020	4.8 °C20 January 2020	25.5 °C	4 mm	219	0
2019	44.7 °C26 June 2019	4.6 °C16 January 2019	25.4 °C	1 mm	222	0
2018	44.8 °C23 May 2018	6.0 °C30 December 2018	26.2 °C	1 mm	242	0
2017	43.9 °C9 June 2017	5.0 °C3 January 2017	25.3 °C	2 mm	217	0
2016	45.8 °C5 June 2016	4.5 °C28 January 2016	26.0 °C	1 mm	244	0
2015	45.0 °C28 May 2015	3.8 °C11 January 2015	25.9 °C	3 mm	219	0
2014	45.0 °C13 July 2014	7.4 °C11 January 2014	26.2 °C	4 mm	243	0
2013	46.1 °C2 June 2013	5.3 °C17 December 2013	25.7 °C	1 mm	245	0
2012	43.3 °C26 July 2012	3.9 °C22 January 2012	25.4 °C	1 mm	234	0
2011	43.5 °C3 August 2011	6.5 °C10 January 2011	24.7 °C	0 mm	215	0
2010	45.8 °C22 June 2010	6.6 °C19 December 2010	27.0 °C	19 mm	262	0
2009	42.8 °C13 July 2009	5.5 °C4 January 2009	25.1 °C	3 mm	220	0
2008	43.3 °C9 June 2008	3.9 °C1 February 2008	25.3 °C	8 mm	222	0
2007	43.1 °C10 June 2007	5.3 °C10 January 2007	24.9 °C	0 mm	223	0
2006	45.6 °C5 June 2006	3.4 °C30 December 2006	24.9 °C	1 mm	216	0
2005	42.8 °C21 June 2005	4.7 °C28 December 2005	25.1 °C	0 mm	228	0
2004	46.0 °C10 May 2004	4.9 °C16 February 2004	25.0 °C	0 mm	237	0
2003	44.7 °C29 May 2003	4.7 °C26 February 2003	25.0 °C	0 mm	219	0
2002	45.9 °C31 July 2002	3.3 °C9 January 2002	25.3 °C	0 mm	234	0
2001	43.9 °C28 May 2001	5.9 °C23 December 2001	24.9 °C	0 mm	224	0
2000	46.6 °C31 July 2000	5.1 °C31 January 2000	24.4 °C	2 mm	214	0
1999	42.8 °C24 May 1999	5.9 °C10 February 1999	25.2 °C	3 mm	224	0
1998	44.3 °C13 June 1998	4.2 °C25 January 1998	25.2 °C	1 mm	227	0
1997	43.0 °C15 August 1997	3.4 °C6 February 1997	24.5 °C	2 mm	203	0
1996	44.6 °C4 July 1996	5.1 °C19 January 1996	25.2 °C	4 mm	211	0
1995	47.1 °C2 July 1995	4.3 °C17 January 1995	24.9 °C	1 mm	214	0
1994	43.6 °C16 June 1994	4.8 °C20 December 1994	24.6 °C	14 mm	214	0
1993	44.6 °C6 June 1993	3.7 °C12 January 1993	24.9 °C	3 mm	233	0
1992	44.9 °C20 June 1992	2.7 °C1 January 1992	23.8 °C	0 mm	216	0
1991	47.3 °C15 May 1991	2.6 °C30 December 1991	24.5 °C	2 mm	228	0
1990	43.4 °C31 May 1990	5.2 °C19 January 1990	24.6 °C	4 mm	235	0
1989	45.1 °C7 June 1989	2.7 °C6 January 1989	24.4 °C	1 mm	206	0
1988	45.9 °C21 June 1988	4.2 °C18 January 1988	24.8 °C	1 mm	218	0
1987	45.6 °C9 August 1987	2.9 °C8 January 1987	24.4 °C	3 mm	206	0
1986	44.5 °C10 June 1986	4.2 °C31 December 1986	24.2 °C	1 mm	216	0
1985	43.1 °C19 June 1985	4.1 °C8 February 1985	24.8 °C	9 mm	226	0
1984	45.5 °C26 May 1984	4.7 °C25 January 1984	24.3 °C	0 mm	215	0
1983	44.4 °C12 July 1983	2.8 °C3 January 1983	23.4 °C	0 mm	205	0
1982	42.9 °C30 June 1982	3.9 °C30 December 1982	23.6 °C	2 mm	212	0
1981	43.6 °C28 June 1981	1.9 °C12 January 1981	23.9 °C	0 mm	210	0
1980	45.6 °C21 May 1980	3.5 °C8 January 1980	24.4 °C	6 mm	226	0
1979	45.2 °C24 June 1979	4.5 °C10 January 1979	25.0 °C	6 mm	243	0
1978	47.0 °C30 May 1978	1.9 °C6 January 1978	24.3 °C	0 mm	216	0
1977	45.9 °C2 June 1977	1.5 °C26 December 1977	23.8 °C	0 mm	204	0
1976	45.4 °C27 June 1976	3.2 °C11 February 1976	24.1 °C	2 mm	223	0
1975	43.1 °C11 June 1975	2.3 °C6 January 1975	23.7 °C	5 mm	223	0
1974	43.7 °C14 June 1974	3.3 °C18 January 1974	24.0 °C	2 mm	228	0
1973	43.5 °C27 July 1973	3.0 °C16 January 1973	24.2 °C	0 mm	224	0
1972	42.9 °C20 June 1972	2.6 °C8 February 1972	24.2 °C	1 mm	211	0
1971	43.8 °C20 June 1971	3.5 °C29 December 1971	24.2 °C	3 mm	216	0
1970	45.9 °C21 May 1970	4.1 °C23 January 1970	24.1 °C	0 mm	212	0
1969	45.9 °C16 June 1969	2.5 °C30 January 1969	24.9 °C	9 mm	226	0
1968	44.8 °C16 July 1968	1.4 °C16 January 1968	24.1 °C	8 mm	210	0
1967	44.8 °C13 June 1967	2.7 °C30 January 1967	23.5 °C	156 mm	194	0
1966	44.4 °C9 June 1966	3.7 °C10 January 1966	24.6 °C	164 mm	225	0
1965	46.6 °C10 June 1965	4.3 °C17 December 1965	24.0 °C	4 mm	204	0
1964	44.9 °C31 May 1964	3.0 °C26 January 1964	23.8 °C	11 mm	229	0
1963	45.6 °C7 June 1963	4.0 °C29 January 1963	25.0 °C	6 mm	220	0
1962	45.1 °C7 June 1962	4.4 °C13 January 1962	24.7 °C	0 mm	247	0
1961	47.4 °C8 June 1961	2.7 °C25 December 1961	23.5 °C	0 mm	204	0
1960	43.5 °C6 July 1960	3.4 °C26 January 1960	25.0 °C	1 mm	231	0
1959	45.5 °C12 June 1959	1.3 °C16 February 1959	23.9 °C	0 mm	220	0
1958	44.9 °C18 April 1958	4.1 °C30 January 1958	24.8 °C	0 mm	239	0
1957	43.3 °C3 August 1957	1.6 °C3 February 1957	24.7 °C	0 mm	223	0
1956	45.5 °C25 July 1956	2.4 °C16 December 1956	24.1 °C	0 mm	222	0
1955	44.6 °C31 July 1955	2.9 °C2 January 1955	24.3 °C	4 mm	227	0
1954	45.5 °C29 May 1954	0.1 °C12 January 1954	23.7 °C	4 mm	206	0
1953	44.1 °C23 July 1953	-0.6 °C16 January 1953	23.5 °C	6 mm	218	1
1952	45.3 °C22 May 1952	1.1 °C11 January 1952	24.2 °C	2 mm	217	0
1951	45.6 °C17 May 1951	2.1 °C18 December 1951	24.1 °C	0 mm	226	0
1950	42.7 °C13 August 1950	-0.4 °C7 February 1950	23.8 °C	4 mm	217	1
1949	44.8 °C24 May 1949	1.2 °C10 February 1949	23.2 °C	6 mm	212	0
1948	44.3 °C16 June 1948	1.7 °C4 January 1948	22.9 °C	1 mm	207	0
1947	43.2 °C16 July 1947	2.1 °C14 January 1947	24.4 °C	5 mm	224	0
1946	42.8 °C3 June 1946	1.7 °C17 February 1946	23.8 °C	2 mm	224	0
1945	44.7 °C3 August 1945	0.9 °C6 January 1945	23.0 °C	8 mm	200	0
1944	46.3 °C14 June 1944	1.3 °C21 January 1944	23.6 °C	19 mm	215	0
1943	44.9 °C16 August 1943	1.2 °C30 January 1943	23.8 °C	45 mm	206	0
1942	44.5 °C6 May 1942	-0.9 °C3 January 1942	24.3 °C	5 mm	220	2
1941	44.1 °C11 May 1941	2.1 °C30 December 1941	24.1 °C	0 mm	218	0
1940	43.7 °C27 June 1940	-0.3 °C31 December 1940	23.6 °C	3 mm	213	1

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

Pick a year and see how it compares to normal — warmer, drier or more extreme than usual?

Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

32.4 °C

+0.5 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

237 d/yr

+16

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

0 mm

-7 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	vs. normal
Jan	24.4 °C	+3.3 °C	-1 mm
Feb	22.3 °C	-1.2 °C	-0 mm
Mar	28.8 °C	+1.1 °C	-0 mm
Apr	33.7 °C	+0.5 °C	-0 mm
May	36.4 °C	-0.8 °C	-0 mm
Jun	37.9 °C	-1.6 °C	0 mm
Jul	40.1 °C	+0.7 °C	0 mm
Aug	40.1 °C	+0.8 °C	0 mm
Sep	36.6 °C	-0.8 °C	-0 mm
Oct	34.3 °C	+0.6 °C	-3 mm
Nov	30.5 °C	+2.8 °C	-1 mm
Dec	23.4 °C	+0.8 °C	-1 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

45.4 °C

14 Aug 2025

Coldest day

6.8 °C

14 Feb 2025

Wettest day

0.0 mm

1 Jan 2025

Windiest day

30.9 km/h

24 Apr 2025

Strongest gust

52.6 km/h

24 Apr 2025

Hottest feels-like

48.5 °C

14 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

3.4 °C

14 Feb 2025

Sunniest day

13.1 h

26 Jun 2025

What was the weather like that day?

Your birthday, a wedding, a memorable trip: discover the actual weather for any date since 1940.

Date

Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Luxor?

Luxor has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 24.5 °C and it receives 7 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Luxor?

The hottest day measured in Luxor between 1940 and 2025 was 8 June 1961, reaching 47.4 °C.

What is the coldest day in Luxor?

The coldest day measured in Luxor between 1940 and 2025 was 3 January 1942, at -0.9 °C.

Does it snow in Luxor?

Almost never: Luxor sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Luxor warmed?

Yes: Luxor warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Luxor?

The wettest day measured in Luxor between 1940 and 2025 was 31 October 1966, with 45 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Luxor?

The windiest day measured in Luxor between 1940 and 2025 was 11 May 1983, with winds reaching 39.5 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Luxor?

The warmest month in Luxor is July (32.6 °C on average); the coldest is January (13.9 °C).

How much does it rain in Luxor?

Luxor receives on average 7 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 1 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Luxor?

Luxor gets on average 11.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,198 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Luxor?

Yes: Luxor has on average 156 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Luxor?

In Luxor, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 48.5 °C on 14 August 2025, and the lowest was -5.2 °C on 3 January 1942.

Compare Luxor with another city

Pick a second city: its normals will be set against these, indicator by indicator.

Nearby cities

The climate around Luxor

Other cities — Egypt

All cities in Egypt →