Climate averages 1991–2020
Damascus weather
in April.
A warm, very dry month: the 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Damascus: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 8.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 11 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes April a very dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 00 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dārayyā (8 km away). In April its highs average 22.1°C, about as warm as Damascus, with 11 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Damascus ranks 13th of 18 for the warmest April highs and joint 2nd of 18 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 18 cities is 23.3°C; Damascus is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.5°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 11 mm to 8.0 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Damascus climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.9°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 41 | 7.7 | 10.210 h |
| February | 12.5°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 36 | 7.1 | 11.011 h |
| March | 17.0°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 25 | 5.3 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 22.4°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 11 | 3.0 | 13.013 h |
| May | 27.9°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 8.0 | 2.0 | 13.914 h |
| June | 32.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 14.314 h |
| July | 35.2°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 14.114 h |
| August | 35.1°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 0.3 | 0.0 | 13.413 h |
| September | 31.9°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 1.2 | 0.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.1°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 7.7 | 2.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 18.0°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 21 | 4.1 | 10.510 h |
| December | 12.7°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 31 | 5.9 | 10.010 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
April in nearby cities
- Dārayyā in AprilSyria · 8 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 8.9°C · 11 mm rain
- Dūmā in AprilSyria · 12 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 9.4°C · 4.3 mm rain
- Zahlé in AprilLebanon · 52 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 7.5°C · 33 mm rain
- Aley in AprilLebanon · 72 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 7.3°C · 46 mm rain
- Nabatîyé et Tahta in AprilLebanon · 76 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 10.6°C · 52 mm rain
- Jounieh in AprilLebanon · 81 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 13.0°C · 46 mm rain
- Beirut in AprilLebanon · 85 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 12.5°C · 46 mm rain
- Sidon in AprilLebanon · 85 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 13.1°C · 59 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 Damascus) is explained once on the Damascus year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Dārayyā lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.