Ar Raqqah climate

Name: Ar Raqqah
Address: SY

Ar Raqqah is warmest in July, with average highs of 40 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 2.6 °C. January is the wettest month (32 mm) and August the driest (0.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ar Raqqah averages 187 mm of rain, 195 days above 25 °C and 17 days below freezing.

Syria · population 531,952 · 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 40 °C
Coldest month January 2.6 °C
Driest month August 0 mm
Wettest month January 32 mm
Least cloud August 2 % cloud
Hottest on record July 47 °C
Coldest on record December -6.6 °C

What to expectAr Raqqah through the year

Ar Raqqah has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 12 °C in January to 40 °C in July, a swing of 25 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 195 days a year reach 25 °C, 157 of them reach 30 °C, 17 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C, in July.

Rain is spread fairly evenly through the year, from 0 mm in August to 32 mm in January. There is no dry season to aim for.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	12.1 °C	32 mm	48 %
February	14.4 °C	28 mm	44 %
March	19.5 °C	26 mm	40 %
April	25.4 °C	18 mm	37 %
May	31.4 °C	11 mm	25 %
June	36.5 °C	under 1 mm	5 %
July	39.7 °C	under 1 mm	2 %
August	39.2 °C	under 1 mm	2 %
September	34.8 °C	1 mm	5 %
October	28.5 °C	16 mm	24 %
November	19.4 °C	24 mm	37 %
December	13.5 °C	30 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	12.1 °C	2.6 °C	7.1 °C	19.4 °C	-5.4 °C	0	0	7
February	14.4 °C	3.7 °C	8.9 °C	26.6 °C	-5.6 °C	0	0	5
March	19.5 °C	7.5 °C	13.6 °C	34.9 °C	-2.4 °C	3	0	1
April	25.4 °C	12.2 °C	19.1 °C	40.0 °C	1.5 °C	15	6	0
May	31.4 °C	17.4 °C	24.8 °C	41.6 °C	9.8 °C	28	20	0
June	36.5 °C	21.9 °C	29.5 °C	44.6 °C	14.1 °C	30	29	0
July	39.7 °C	24.4 °C	32.1 °C	47.0 °C	18.8 °C	31	31	0
August	39.2 °C	24.3 °C	31.8 °C	45.0 °C	19.8 °C	31	31	0
September	34.8 °C	21.1 °C	28.1 °C	43.8 °C	10.9 °C	30	28	0
October	28.5 °C	16.0 °C	22.3 °C	37.5 °C	5.9 °C	25	12	0
November	19.4 °C	8.4 °C	13.7 °C	30.3 °C	-2.0 °C	2	0	1
December	13.5 °C	4.1 °C	8.5 °C	25.2 °C	-6.6 °C	0	0	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	32 mm	7	10.0 h/day	48 %	76 %	16 km/h
February	28 mm	6	11 h/day	44 %	69 %	17 km/h
March	26 mm	5	12 h/day	40 %	56 %	20 km/h
April	18 mm	4	13 h/day	37 %	47 %	21 km/h
May	11 mm	2	14 h/day	25 %	39 %	22 km/h
June	under 1 mm	0	15 h/day	5 %	33 %	26 km/h
July	under 1 mm	0	14 h/day	2 %	35 %	28 km/h
August	under 1 mm	0	14 h/day	2 %	38 %	25 km/h
September	1 mm	0	12 h/day	5 %	39 %	19 km/h
October	16 mm	3	11 h/day	24 %	46 %	15 km/h
November	24 mm	4	10 h/day	37 %	63 %	13 km/h
December	30 mm	6	9.7 h/day	49 %	75 %	14 km/h

How Ar Raqqah 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
Ar Raqqah	40 °C	2.6 °C	187 mm	195
Deir ez-Zor · Syria	40 °C	3.3 °C	149 mm	202
Şanlıurfa · Turkey	39 °C	1.1 °C	491 mm	170
Viranşehir · Turkey	39 °C	1.2 °C	428 mm	171
Al Ḩasakah · Syria	41 °C	2.0 °C	291 mm	191
Aleppo · Syria	36 °C	2.4 °C	300 mm	179
Gaziantep · Turkey	35 °C	-0.3 °C	451 mm	151

Where Ar Raqqah ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in August	49th of 50	39 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Ar Raqqah’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ar Raqqah?

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 Ar Raqqah get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 40 °C. About 157 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 2.6 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 17 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Ar Raqqah?

January, averaging 32 mm over 7 days with rain. The driest month is August with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 187 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 Ar Raqqah 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: 35.953°, 39.008° (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.