El-Shorouk (Arabic: الشروق  pronounced [eʃʃʊˈɾuːʔ, eʃʃɪˈɾuːʔ], "the Sunrise") is a satellite city in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt, also spelt Elshorouk.

[3] The establishment of the city highlights the efforts of the Egyptian state in managing urban expansion to achieve several development goals.

[4] This underachievement is not just in Shorouk, but across the new city programme where cities are planned according to wholly unrealistic population growth rates, and where they are inequitably distributed (by land area) to capture population growth.

[5][6] The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies El Shorouk as a hot desert (BWh),[7][8] as is the rest of Egypt.

In addition to scarce rain, extreme heat during summer months is a general climate feature of El Shorouk.