Climate averages 1991–2020
Al Bāb weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Al Bāb: daytime highs average 10.4°C and nights cool to about 2.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 49 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 59 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Aleppo (37 km away). In January its highs average 10.9°C, 0.5°C warmer than Al Bāb, with 56 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Al Bāb ranks 16th of 18 for the warmest January highs and joint 9th of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; Al Bāb is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 12.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 49 mm to 42 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
Al Bāb climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.4°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 49 | 9.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 12.3°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 42 | 7.9 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 34 | 6.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.6°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 22 | 5.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 28.5°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 16 | 3.2 | 14.114 h |
| June | 33.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 3.0 | 0.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 37.2°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 37.1°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 13.514 h |
| September | 32.9°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 2.6 | 0.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.6°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 17 | 3.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 17.9°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 29 | 5.4 | 10.310 h |
| December | 11.9°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 49 | 8.2 | 9.710 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
- Aleppo in JanuarySyria · 37 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Manbij in JanuarySyria · 43 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 1.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Kilis in JanuaryTurkey · 53 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 69 mm rain
- Nizip in JanuaryTurkey · 75 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Gaziantep in JanuaryTurkey · 78 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 77 mm rain
- Idlib in JanuarySyria · 93 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 2.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Suruç in JanuaryTurkey · 105 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 1.7°C · 60 mm rain
- Al-Tabqa in JanuarySyria · 110 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.5°C · 32 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 Al Bāb) is explained once on the Al Bāb year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.