Climate averages 1991–2020
As Salamīyah 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 As Salamīyah: daytime highs average 12.5°C and nights cool to about 3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 30 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 05 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ḩamāh (30 km away). In January its highs average 13.2°C, 0.7°C warmer than As Salamīyah, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, As Salamīyah ranks joint 6th of 18 for the warmest January highs and 3rd of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; As Salamīyah is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 14.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 30 mm to 28 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
As Salamīyah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.5°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 30 | 7.0 | 10.110 h |
| February | 14.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 28 | 6.3 | 10.911 h |
| March | 18.6°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 24 | 5.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.8°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 13 | 3.2 | 13.013 h |
| May | 28.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 12 | 2.3 | 14.014 h |
| June | 32.8°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 14.514 h |
| July | 35.1°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 14.314 h |
| August | 35.3°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 0.6 | 0.3 | 13.513 h |
| September | 32.5°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 1.2 | 0.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.3°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 11 | 2.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.6°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 17 | 4.1 | 10.410 h |
| December | 14.2°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 26 | 5.7 | 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
- Ḩamāh in JanuarySyria · 30 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Homs in JanuarySyria · 44 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 2.9°C · 39 mm rain
- Ţarţūs in JanuarySyria · 107 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 8.5°C · 135 mm rain
- Idlib in JanuarySyria · 109 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 2.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Tripoli, Lebanon in JanuaryLebanon · 128 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 8.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Latakia in JanuarySyria · 128 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 9.0°C · 226 mm rain
- Aleppo in JanuarySyria · 133 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Samandağ in JanuaryTurkey · 154 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 7.0°C · 131 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 As Salamīyah) is explained once on the As Salamīyah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.