Homs climate

Name: Homs
Address: SY

Homs is warmest in August, with average highs of 34 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 2.7 °C. January is the wettest month (40 mm) and July the driest (0.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Homs averages 195 mm of rain, 179 days above 25 °C and 13 days below freezing.

Syria · population 775,404 · 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 August 34 °C
Coldest month January 2.7 °C
Driest month July 0 mm
Wettest month January 40 mm
Least cloud July 6 % cloud
Hottest on record July 43 °C
Coldest on record February -8.0 °C

What to expectHoms through the year

Homs has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 13 °C in January to 34 °C in August, a swing of 19 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 179 days a year reach 25 °C, 116 of them reach 30 °C, 13 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 40 mm against 0 mm in July — 282 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	12.6 °C	40 mm	48 %
February	14.1 °C	37 mm	46 %
March	17.9 °C	28 mm	42 %
April	22.9 °C	15 mm	37 %
May	27.8 °C	11 mm	25 %
June	31.4 °C	1 mm	8 %
July	33.5 °C	under 1 mm	6 %
August	33.7 °C	under 1 mm	8 %
September	31.4 °C	2 mm	11 %
October	26.8 °C	11 mm	27 %
November	19.6 °C	18 mm	39 %
December	14.4 °C	31 mm	48 %

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	12.6 °C	2.7 °C	7.3 °C	22.2 °C	-6.0 °C	0	0	5
February	14.1 °C	3.4 °C	8.4 °C	25.6 °C	-8.0 °C	0	0	4
March	17.9 °C	6.2 °C	11.8 °C	33.5 °C	-3.3 °C	3	0	1
April	22.9 °C	9.6 °C	16.1 °C	37.4 °C	-1.2 °C	10	2	0
May	27.8 °C	13.8 °C	20.6 °C	39.0 °C	7.2 °C	22	10	0
June	31.4 °C	17.5 °C	24.2 °C	42.9 °C	9.6 °C	29	19	0
July	33.5 °C	20.1 °C	26.3 °C	43.3 °C	15.9 °C	31	29	0
August	33.7 °C	20.3 °C	26.3 °C	42.8 °C	16.5 °C	31	30	0
September	31.4 °C	18.0 °C	24.0 °C	43.1 °C	9.8 °C	29	20	0
October	26.8 °C	14.3 °C	20.0 °C	36.9 °C	3.2 °C	22	6	0
November	19.6 °C	8.4 °C	13.5 °C	29.8 °C	-2.8 °C	3	0	0
December	14.4 °C	4.3 °C	8.9 °C	25.6 °C	-5.4 °C	0	0	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	40 mm	8	10 h/day	48 %	76 %	16 km/h
February	37 mm	7	11 h/day	46 %	71 %	18 km/h
March	28 mm	6	12 h/day	42 %	65 %	21 km/h
April	15 mm	4	13 h/day	37 %	57 %	22 km/h
May	11 mm	3	14 h/day	25 %	53 %	23 km/h
June	1 mm	0	14 h/day	8 %	52 %	25 km/h
July	under 1 mm	0	14 h/day	6 %	56 %	27 km/h
August	under 1 mm	0	13 h/day	8 %	60 %	24 km/h
September	2 mm	1	12 h/day	11 %	59 %	20 km/h
October	11 mm	3	11 h/day	27 %	59 %	16 km/h
November	18 mm	4	10 h/day	39 %	64 %	15 km/h
December	31 mm	7	9.8 h/day	48 %	73 %	15 km/h

How Homs 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
Homs	34 °C	2.7 °C	195 mm	179
Ḩamāh · Syria	36 °C	3.6 °C	235 mm	190
Ţarţūs · Syria	30 °C	8.8 °C	766 mm	156
Tripoli · Lebanon	30 °C	7.7 °C	703 mm	164
Latakia · Syria	30 °C	8.8 °C	930 mm	147
Damascus · Syria	35 °C	1.1 °C	181 mm	178

Where Homs ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in July	49th of 50	0.1 mm

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Homs’s climate

When is the best time to visit Homs?

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, August is the warmest month and July the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Homs get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 34 °C. About 116 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 2.7 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 13 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Homs?

January, averaging 40 mm over 8 days with rain. The driest month is July with 0 mm. The year as a whole averages 195 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 Homs 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: 34.724°, 36.726° (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.