Damascus climate

Name: Damascus
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Damascus is warmest in July, with average highs of 35 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 1.1 °C. January is the wettest month (40 mm) and July the driest (0.06 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Damascus averages 181 mm of rain, 178 days above 25 °C and 26 days below freezing.

Syria · population 1,569,394 · 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 35 °C
Coldest month January 1.1 °C
Driest month July 0 mm
Wettest month January 40 mm
Least cloud July 4 % cloud
Hottest on record July 45 °C
Coldest on record January -16 °C

What to expectDamascus through the year

Damascus has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 11 °C in January to 35 °C in July, a swing of 21 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 178 days a year reach 25 °C, 125 of them reach 30 °C, 26 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 40 mm against 0 mm in July — 671 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	11.1 °C	40 mm	50 %
February	12.8 °C	35 mm	50 %
March	17.3 °C	25 mm	44 %
April	22.6 °C	11 mm	35 %
May	28.1 °C	7 mm	23 %
June	32.6 °C	under 1 mm	6 %
July	35.4 °C	under 1 mm	4 %
August	35.3 °C	under 1 mm	5 %
September	32.1 °C	1 mm	9 %
October	26.3 °C	7 mm	25 %
November	18.2 °C	23 mm	40 %
December	12.9 °C	31 mm	50 %

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	11.1 °C	1.1 °C	5.9 °C	21.1 °C	-15.6 °C	0	0	10
February	12.8 °C	1.8 °C	7.2 °C	25.6 °C	-15.6 °C	0	0	7
March	17.3 °C	4.5 °C	11.0 °C	31.2 °C	-6.3 °C	2	0	2
April	22.6 °C	8.2 °C	15.8 °C	34.6 °C	-6.6 °C	10	2	0
May	28.1 °C	12.4 °C	20.8 °C	39.7 °C	3.1 °C	24	11	0
June	32.6 °C	15.5 °C	24.7 °C	42.0 °C	7.0 °C	30	23	0
July	35.4 °C	17.5 °C	27.0 °C	44.8 °C	10.3 °C	31	30	0
August	35.3 °C	17.7 °C	26.9 °C	43.0 °C	10.0 °C	31	31	0
September	32.1 °C	16.2 °C	24.3 °C	43.3 °C	9.0 °C	29	23	0
October	26.3 °C	12.6 °C	19.5 °C	35.5 °C	2.1 °C	20	5	0
November	18.2 °C	6.8 °C	12.3 °C	28.0 °C	-4.1 °C	2	0	1
December	12.9 °C	2.9 °C	7.7 °C	24.1 °C	-10.4 °C	0	0	6

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	40 mm	7	10 h/day	50 %	73 %	13 km/h
February	35 mm	7	11 h/day	50 %	69 %	14 km/h
March	25 mm	5	12 h/day	44 %	59 %	16 km/h
April	11 mm	3	13 h/day	35 %	49 %	16 km/h
May	7 mm	2	14 h/day	23 %	42 %	17 km/h
June	under 1 mm	0	14 h/day	6 %	39 %	18 km/h
July	under 1 mm	0	14 h/day	4 %	40 %	18 km/h
August	under 1 mm	0	13 h/day	5 %	44 %	16 km/h
September	1 mm	0	12 h/day	9 %	44 %	14 km/h
October	7 mm	2	11 h/day	25 %	48 %	12 km/h
November	23 mm	4	10 h/day	40 %	61 %	11 km/h
December	31 mm	6	9.9 h/day	50 %	71 %	11 km/h

How Damascus 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
Damascus	35 °C	1.1 °C	181 mm	178
Beirut · Lebanon	31 °C	7.8 °C	631 mm	178
Sidon · Lebanon	30 °C	8.5 °C	646 mm	167
Tripoli · Lebanon	30 °C	7.7 °C	703 mm	164
Irbid · Jordan	33 °C	4.0 °C	266 mm	187

Where Damascus ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in July	33rd of 50	0.06 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Damascus.

QuestionsCommon questions about Damascus’s climate

When is the best time to visit Damascus?

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 July the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Damascus get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 35 °C. About 125 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 1.1 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 26 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Damascus?

January, averaging 40 mm over 7 days with rain. The driest month is July with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 181 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 Damascus 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: 33.510°, 36.291° (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.