Canary Islands vs Egypt

Illuminated pools with striped umbrellas and loungers at Bahia Principe Fantasia Tenerife, multi-story resort buildings at dusk.

Canary Islands15 resorts · ★ 4.6 average

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

Canary Islands 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

Canary Islands compared with Egypt
Canary Islands	Measure	Egypt
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
15	Resorts in our catalog	20 (better)
★ 4.6	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$83–$260/night pp	Nightly rates	$62–$261/night pp (better)
3 of 15	Adults-only resorts	4 of 20
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
November–February, lightly, and mostly on the north coasts	Rainy season	None to speak of
Year-round; December–March is when the islands earn their keep, and summer is the value season	Sweet spot	October–May; high summer is very hot (but dry, and the sea is warm)

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

Canary Islands

Egypt

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Canary Islands and Egypt
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Canary Islands · high °F	70	71	73	74	76	79	83	84	82	79	75	71
Egypt · high °F	71	73	78	85	91	95	97	97	93	87	80	74
Canary Islands · rain (in)	1.2	0.9	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.6	1.1	1.3
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 Tenerife South and Red Sea coast (Hurghada): planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.