Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast vs Turkey

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

Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast14 resorts · ★ 4.7 average

Aerial view of Concorde De Luxe Resort's distinctive white building with curved wings overlooking multiple pools, beach, and turquoise Mediterranean Sea with boats.

Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast and Turkey, 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

Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast compared with Turkey
Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast	Measure	Turkey
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
14	Resorts in our catalog	19 (better)
★ 4.7 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.6
$62–$249/night pp	Nightly rates	$1–$833/night pp (better)
4 of 14	Adults-only resorts	0 of 19
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
None to speak of	Rainy season	November–February (impressively wet winters, irrelevant to summer trips)
October–May; high summer is very hot but dry, and the sea is at its warmest	Sweet spot	May–June and September–October; July–August regularly tops 90°F

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

Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast

Turkey

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast and Turkey
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast · high °F	71	73	78	85	91	95	97	97	93	87	80	74
Turkey · high °F	59	60	64	70	78	86	93	93	87	79	69	61
Hurghada & the Red Sea Coast · 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
Turkey · rain (in)	9.2	6.3	3.8	1.8	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.6	2.6	7.1	10.2

Approximate climate normals for Hurghada and Antalya coast: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.