Aruba vs Egypt

Turquoise pool with loungers and fire pits on sand deck, surrounded by curved resort building with white cabanas and green-roofed central structure.

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

Aruba 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

Aruba compared with Egypt
Aruba	Measure	Egypt
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
11	Resorts in our catalog	20 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$62–$261/night pp (better)
2 of 11	Adults-only resorts	4 of 20
Outside the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	None to speak of
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	October–May; high summer is very hot (but dry, and the sea is warm)
Dutch & Papiamento (English universal)	Language	Arabic (English widely spoken at resorts)
Aruban florin; USD universally accepted	Currency	Egyptian pound (EGP) – USD and euro often accepted
120V, Type A/B plugs (same as the US)	Power	220V, Type C/F plugs (European – adapter needed)
On the right	Driving	On the right
Oranjestad (AUA)	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

Aruba

Egypt

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Egypt
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Egypt · high °F	71	73	78	85	91	95	97	97	93	87	80	74
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2
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 Palm Beach / Eagle Beach and Red Sea coast (Hurghada): planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.