Antigua vs Egypt

Aerial view of Hammock Cove Antigua with pools, beach loungers, wooden pier, and turquoise water with moored floats.

White resort buildings overlook multiple blue pools with palm trees and loungers at Steigenberger Resort Alaya Marsa Alam, with the Red Sea beyond.

Antigua and Egypt, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

By the numbers

Antigua compared with Egypt
Antigua	Measure	Egypt
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
10	Resorts in our catalog	20 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$155–$2456/night pp	Nightly rates	$62–$285/night pp (better)
7 of 10	Adults-only resorts	4 of 20
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
September–November	Rainy season	None to speak of
December–April	Sweet spot	October–May; high summer is very hot (but dry, and the sea is warm)
English (official)	Language	Arabic (English widely spoken at resorts)
East Caribbean dollar – USD widely accepted	Currency	Egyptian pound (EGP) – USD and euro often accepted
230V (110V at some hotels), Type A/B plugs	Power	220V, Type C/F plugs (European – adapter needed)
On the left	Driving	On the right
V.C. Bird International, St. John's (ANU)	Main airport	Sharm el-Sheikh (SSH)
~4–4.5h from the US East Coast	Flight time	~11–13h from the US East Coast (via Europe or the Gulf)

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Antigua

Egypt

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Antigua and Egypt
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Antigua · high °F	82	82	83	84	86	87	87	88	88	87	85	83
Egypt · high °F	71	73	78	85	91	95	97	97	93	87	80	74
Antigua · rain (in)	2.6	1.7	1.7	2.4	3.6	2.5	3.0	3.9	4.9	5.5	5.5	3.5
Egypt · rain (in)	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1

Approximate climate normals for Island-wide and Red Sea coast (Hurghada): planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.