Best time to visit The Red Sea
The month-by-month edit — when The Red Sea actually opens up, when to avoid it, and how crowds and hotel rates move through the year.
The short answer
When The Red Sea is at its best
The Red Sea is the Saudi tourism opening's most ambitious single project — a 28,000-square-kilometre coastal-and-island development on the kingdom's western coast between Yanbu and Umluj, with 90 islands inside the protected zone, a brand-new Red Sea International Airport (RSI), and a phased resort programme that placed its first hotels into operation in late 2023. The development has been built explicitly to a 1-million-visitor annual cap (versus the Maldives' 1.6 million) under a sustainability framework that protects 75% of the islands from any development — the resulting luxury experience is genuinely unlike any other Indian-Ocean or Gulf coast.
Month by month
The The Red Sea calendar
Average daytime high, rain days, crowd pressure (1–5) and hotel-rate index (1–5). Verified against climate-data.org and our hotel-rate tracking.
| Month | Avg high | Rain days | Crowd | Rate idx |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 25°C | 1 d | ||
| Feb | 26°C | 1 d | ||
| Mar | 29°C | 1 d | ||
| Apr | 32°C | 1 d | ||
| May | 36°C | 0 d | ||
| Jun | 38°C | 0 d | ||
| Jul | 39°C | 0 d | ||
| Aug | 39°C | 0 d | ||
| Sep | 37°C | 0 d | ||
| Oct | 33°C | 1 d | ||
| Nov | 29°C | 1 d | ||
| Dec | 26°C | 1 d |
Sources: Numbeo cost-of-living — The Red Sea · climate-data.org — The Red Sea