Sunny and Windy - That is how the weather can be easily described in Hurghada. The temperature ranges from 23°C during the winter to 38 degrees in July when it is the hottest period. The water temperature is nice througout the year with 22°C as the coldest and up to 28°C in the summer. Leave your rain clothes at home, you will have no use for them. Rain in this area is very rare and it might rain for a few minutes one or two times per year or so...
The wind in the Red Sea is created by the difference in temperature between the land and sea and blows all year around averaging from Force 4-7Bft. (75 % of the days). In Hurghada this is accelerated by the mountain formations along the Red Sea and a bit more by Giftun Island offshore. It will generally pick up during the day and can often start early and sometimes blow all day. At Magawish the wind normally blows slightly side off shore in the morning with a change to side shore at noon.
Weather Station - We have a Davis Vantage Pro weather station that allows us to record weather data around the clock and post it on the web site. So far we have created 3 features; the current weather ticker (updated every 5 minutes daytime), found on the Livecam page and to the right on this page, the 24 hour graphs page updated every 2 hours and finally the weekly graphs page that updates every day. Please let us know by email if you have any suggestions or comments.
The wind in the Red Sea is created by the difference in temperature between the land and sea and blows all year around averaging from Force 4-7Bft. (75 % of the days). In Hurghada this is accelerated by the mountain formations along the Red Sea and a bit more by Giftun Island offshore. It will generally pick up during the day and can often start early and sometimes blow all day. At Magawish the wind normally blows slightly side off shore in the morning with a change to side shore at noon.
Weather Station - We have a Davis Vantage Pro weather station that allows us to record weather data around the clock and post it on the web site. So far we have created 3 features; the current weather ticker (updated every 5 minutes daytime), found on the Livecam page and to the right on this page, the 24 hour graphs page updated every 2 hours and finally the weekly graphs page that updates every day. Please let us know by email if you have any suggestions or comments.
