Ţarţūs climate

Name: Ţarţūs
Address: SY

Ţarţūs is warmest in August, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 8.8 °C. January is the wettest month (139 mm) and July the driest (3.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ţarţūs averages 766 mm of rain and 156 days above 25 °C.

Syria · population 458,327 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month January 8.8 °C
Driest month July 4 mm
Wettest month January 139 mm
Least cloud September 18 % cloud
Hottest on record September 39 °C
Coldest on record February 1.1 °C
Warmest sea August 28 °C

What to expectŢarţūs through the year

Ţarţūs has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 15 °C in January to 30 °C in August, a swing of 15 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 156 days a year reach 25 °C, 38 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 139 mm against 4 mm in July — 40 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Ţarţūs is warmest in August at 28 °C and coldest in February at 17 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	14.8 °C	139 mm	50 %
February	15.7 °C	123 mm	50 %
March	18.0 °C	108 mm	48 %
April	21.0 °C	65 mm	43 %
May	24.3 °C	38 mm	31 %
June	27.0 °C	11 mm	18 %
July	29.1 °C	4 mm	20 %
August	29.9 °C	4 mm	20 %
September	28.8 °C	19 mm	18 %
October	26.5 °C	49 mm	30 %
November	21.2 °C	81 mm	40 %
December	16.5 °C	126 mm	49 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	14.8 °C	8.8 °C	11.6 °C	22.6 °C	2.0 °C	0	0
February	15.7 °C	9.0 °C	12.2 °C	25.0 °C	1.1 °C	0	0
March	18.0 °C	10.7 °C	14.3 °C	31.8 °C	3.4 °C	1	0
April	21.0 °C	13.1 °C	17.1 °C	33.8 °C	5.2 °C	5	1
May	24.3 °C	16.4 °C	20.5 °C	37.1 °C	10.9 °C	11	3
June	27.0 °C	19.8 °C	23.6 °C	35.3 °C	13.3 °C	24	3
July	29.1 °C	22.6 °C	25.9 °C	35.8 °C	17.5 °C	31	7
August	29.9 °C	23.5 °C	26.6 °C	38.4 °C	19.5 °C	31	13
September	28.8 °C	21.8 °C	25.2 °C	38.8 °C	16.8 °C	29	7
October	26.5 °C	18.9 °C	22.5 °C	38.6 °C	9.4 °C	20	4
November	21.2 °C	14.3 °C	17.4 °C	30.8 °C	5.1 °C	4	0
December	16.5 °C	10.4 °C	13.2 °C	25.6 °C	1.7 °C	0	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	139 mm	13	10 h/day	50 %	74 %	18 km/h	18.5 °C
February	123 mm	12	11 h/day	50 %	73 %	19 km/h	17.4 °C
March	108 mm	12	12 h/day	48 %	73 %	19 km/h	17.4 °C
April	65 mm	9	13 h/day	43 %	74 %	18 km/h	18.4 °C
May	38 mm	5	14 h/day	31 %	75 %	17 km/h	21.2 °C
June	11 mm	3	14 h/day	18 %	76 %	17 km/h	24.7 °C
July	4 mm	1	14 h/day	20 %	77 %	18 km/h	27.2 °C
August	4 mm	1	13 h/day	20 %	77 %	17 km/h	28.3 °C
September	19 mm	3	12 h/day	18 %	74 %	16 km/h	27.9 °C
October	49 mm	6	11 h/day	30 %	71 %	15 km/h	25.9 °C
November	81 mm	8	10 h/day	40 %	69 %	16 km/h	23.0 °C
December	126 mm	11	9.8 h/day	49 %	74 %	17 km/h	20.5 °C

How Ţarţūs 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
Ţarţūs	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
Homs · Syria	34 °C	2.7 °C	195 mm	179
Ḩamāh · Syria	36 °C	3.6 °C	235 mm	190
Beirut · Lebanon	31 °C	7.8 °C	631 mm	178
Antakya · Turkey	33 °C	5.0 °C	626 mm	172

Where Ţarţūs ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Best beach destinations in Asia in September	6thof 50	96/100
Best beach destinations in Asia in July	7thof 50	98/100
Best beach destinations in Asia in June	7thof 50	99/100
Best beach destinations in the world in June	12thof 50	99/100
Best beach destinations in Asia in August	15thof 50	94/100
Best beach destinations in Asia in October	19thof 50	93/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Ţarţūs’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ţarţūs?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. May, October, November 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 Ţarţūs get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 38 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 8.8 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ţarţūs?

January, averaging 139 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is July with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 766 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 Ţarţūs 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
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.