Climate
Aswan is Egypt's hottest, driest inhabited city. Aswan's climate ranges from mild in the winter to very hot in the summer with absolutely no rain all year. There is maybe 1 or 2 mm of rain every 5 years. Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain there was seven years earlier. As of 17 October 2012, the last rainfall was thunderstorms on May 13, 2006, January 2010 and October 2012 . In Nubian settlements, they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses.
In winter the temperatures average from 11°C at night to 25°C during the day. In summer the temperature averages 25°C at night to 40°C during the day
| Climate data for Aswan, Egypt | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 22.9 (73.2) |
25.2 (77.4) |
29.5 (85.1) |
34.9 (94.8) |
38.9 (102.0) |
41.4 (106.5) |
41.1 (106.0) |
40.9 (105.6) |
39.3 (102.7) |
35.9 (96.6) |
29.1 (84.4) |
24.3 (75.7) |
33.62 (92.51) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 8.7 (47.7) |
10.2 (50.4) |
13.8 (56.8) |
18.9 (66.0) |
23.0 (73.4) |
25.2 (77.4) |
26.0 (78.8) |
25.8 (78.4) |
24.0 (75.2) |
20.6 (69.1) |
15.0 (59.0) |
10.5 (50.9) |
18.48 (65.26) |
| Rainfall mm (inches) | 0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.1 (0.004) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.7 (0.028) |
0.0 (0) |
0.6 (0.024) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
1.4 (0.055) |
| Avg. precipitation days | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.85 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 298 | 281 | 322 | 316 | 347 | 363 | 375 | 360 | 298 | 315 | 300 | 289 | 3,864 |
| Source #1: World Meteorological Organization | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: The Weather Network | |||||||||||||
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