Climate averages 1991–2020
Zahlé weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Zahlé: daytime highs average 9.6°C and nights cool to about 0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 85 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 11 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Aley (28 km away). In January its highs average 10.6°C, 1.0°C warmer than Zahlé, with 123 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Lebanon, Zahlé ranks 8th of 8 for the warmest January highs and 1st of 8 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 8 cities is 13.8°C; Zahlé is 4.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 10.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 85 mm to 81 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Zahlé climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.6°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 85 | 12.1 | 10.210 h |
| February | 10.8°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 81 | 10.9 | 10.911 h |
| March | 14.5°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 64 | 9.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.1°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 33 | 6.5 | 13.013 h |
| May | 23.8°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 19 | 4.5 | 13.914 h |
| June | 28.0°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 2.1 | 0.5 | 14.414 h |
| July | 30.7°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.214 h |
| August | 31.1°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 13.413 h |
| September | 28.8°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 3.4 | 1.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.4°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 18 | 4.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.5°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 42 | 6.6 | 10.410 h |
| December | 12.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 66 | 9.0 | 9.910 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Aley in JanuaryLebanon · 28 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.0°C · 123 mm rain
- Jounieh in JanuaryLebanon · 30 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.9°C · 144 mm rain
- Beirut in JanuaryLebanon · 37 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.8°C · 144 mm rain
- Damascus in JanuarySyria · 52 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 1.2°C · 41 mm rain
- Dārayyā in JanuarySyria · 53 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 1.8°C · 41 mm rain
- Dūmā in JanuarySyria · 55 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 2.2°C · 24 mm rain
- Sidon in JanuaryLebanon · 59 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 8.6°C · 213 mm rain
- Nabatîyé et Tahta in JanuaryLebanon · 65 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 5.6°C · 121 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Zahlé) is explained once on the Zahlé year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.