Al Ḩasakah climate

Name: Al Ḩasakah
Address: SY

Al Ḩasakah is warmest in July, with average highs of 41 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 2.0 °C. January is the wettest month (51 mm) and August the driest (0.05 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Al Ḩasakah averages 291 mm of rain, 191 days above 25 °C and 19 days below freezing.

Syria · population 422,445 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 41 °C
Coldest month January 2.0 °C
Driest month August 0 mm
Wettest month January 51 mm
Least cloud August 2 % cloud
Hottest on record July 47 °C
Coldest on record February -10 °C

What to expectAl Ḩasakah through the year

Al Ḩasakah has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 12 °C in January to 41 °C in July, a swing of 28 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 191 days a year reach 25 °C, 156 of them reach 30 °C, 19 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 51 mm against 0 mm in August — 1,024 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	11.5 °C	51 mm	49 %
February	13.7 °C	47 mm	46 %
March	18.5 °C	45 mm	42 %
April	24.5 °C	30 mm	40 %
May	31.1 °C	16 mm	29 %
June	37.2 °C	1 mm	6 %
July	41.0 °C	under 1 mm	3 %
August	40.4 °C	under 1 mm	2 %
September	35.6 °C	1 mm	5 %
October	28.5 °C	19 mm	26 %
November	19.2 °C	33 mm	38 %
December	13.1 °C	48 mm	49 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	11.5 °C	2.0 °C	6.5 °C	19.0 °C	-5.9 °C	0	0	8
February	13.7 °C	3.0 °C	8.2 °C	24.0 °C	-10.5 °C	0	0	5
March	18.5 °C	6.7 °C	12.6 °C	33.1 °C	-3.0 °C	2	0	1
April	24.5 °C	11.4 °C	18.2 °C	38.5 °C	1.9 °C	13	4	0
May	31.1 °C	17.1 °C	24.5 °C	40.4 °C	9.4 °C	28	19	0
June	37.2 °C	22.9 °C	30.7 °C	45.4 °C	15.3 °C	30	30	0
July	41.0 °C	26.4 °C	34.2 °C	47.2 °C	19.3 °C	31	31	0
August	40.4 °C	25.9 °C	33.6 °C	46.8 °C	20.9 °C	31	31	0
September	35.6 °C	21.7 °C	28.8 °C	43.6 °C	11.5 °C	30	29	0
October	28.5 °C	15.9 °C	22.1 °C	38.3 °C	6.6 °C	24	13	0
November	19.2 °C	8.3 °C	13.4 °C	28.4 °C	-1.1 °C	2	0	0
December	13.1 °C	3.7 °C	8.0 °C	25.6 °C	-5.7 °C	0	0	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	51 mm	8	9.9 h/day	49 %	75 %	14 km/h
February	47 mm	8	11 h/day	46 %	70 %	15 km/h
March	45 mm	7	12 h/day	42 %	61 %	16 km/h
April	30 mm	5	13 h/day	40 %	52 %	17 km/h
May	16 mm	3	14 h/day	29 %	40 %	18 km/h
June	1 mm	0	15 h/day	6 %	26 %	20 km/h
July	under 1 mm	0	14 h/day	3 %	24 %	20 km/h
August	under 1 mm	0	14 h/day	2 %	27 %	18 km/h
September	1 mm	0	12 h/day	5 %	30 %	16 km/h
October	19 mm	3	11 h/day	26 %	43 %	13 km/h
November	33 mm	5	10 h/day	38 %	62 %	12 km/h
December	48 mm	8	9.7 h/day	49 %	73 %	13 km/h

How Al Ḩasakah compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Al Ḩasakah	41 °C	2.0 °C	291 mm	191
Al Qāmishlī · Syria	40 °C	0.9 °C	418 mm	177
Kızıltepe · Turkey	40 °C	0.8 °C	413 mm	175
Viranşehir · Turkey	39 °C	1.2 °C	428 mm	171
Deir ez-Zor · Syria	40 °C	3.3 °C	149 mm	202
Batman · Turkey	38 °C	-0.5 °C	673 mm	160
Diyarbakır · Turkey	38 °C	-1.6 °C	636 mm	154

Where Al Ḩasakah ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in August	29th of 50	0.05 mm
Places with the best weather in Asia in April	37th of 50	95/100
The warmest places in Asia in August	41st of 50	40 °C
The warmest places in Asia in July	41st of 50	41 °C
The driest places in Asia in July	42nd of 50	0.10 mm
The warmest places in the world in July	46th of 50	41 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Al Ḩasakah’s climate

When is the best time to visit Al Ḩasakah?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. April, May, October sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and August the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Al Ḩasakah get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 41 °C. About 156 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 2.0 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 19 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Al Ḩasakah?

January, averaging 51 mm over 8 days with rain. The driest month is August with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 291 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Al Ḩasakah rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 36.502°, 40.748° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.