Climate averages 1991–2020
Ar Raqqah weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry 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 Ar Raqqah: daytime highs average 12.2°C and nights cool to about 2.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 31 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 01 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Al-Tabqa (43 km away). In January its highs average 11.7°C, about as warm as Ar Raqqah, with 32 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ar Raqqah ranks 8th of 18 for the warmest January highs and 4th of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; Ar Raqqah is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 14.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 31 mm to 27 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
Ar Raqqah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.2°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 31 | 6.9 | 10.010 h |
| February | 14.5°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 27 | 5.9 | 10.911 h |
| March | 19.6°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 25 | 5.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 25.5°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 18 | 3.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 31.5°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 9.7 | 2.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 36.6°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 39.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.314 h |
| August | 39.3°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 13.514 h |
| September | 34.9°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 28.5°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 16 | 2.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.5°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 23 | 4.1 | 10.310 h |
| December | 13.6°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 29 | 6.2 | 9.810 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
- Al-Tabqa in JanuarySyria · 43 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.5°C · 32 mm rain
- Manbij in JanuarySyria · 114 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 1.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Deir ez-Zor in JanuarySyria · 123 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 3.5°C · 25 mm rain
- Suruç in JanuaryTurkey · 125 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 1.7°C · 60 mm rain
- Şanlıurfa in JanuaryTurkey · 136 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Al Bāb in JanuarySyria · 142 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.3°C · 49 mm rain
- Viranşehir in JanuaryTurkey · 156 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 1.4°C · 72 mm rain
- Nizip in JanuaryTurkey · 160 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 72 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 Ar Raqqah) is explained once on the Ar Raqqah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.