Climate averages 1991–2020
Damascus 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 Damascus: daytime highs average 10.9°C and nights cool to about 1.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 12 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dārayyā (8 km away). In January its highs average 10.8°C, about as warm as Damascus, with 41 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Damascus ranks joint 13th of 18 for the warmest January highs and joint 7th of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; Damascus is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 12.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 41 mm to 36 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
Damascus climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Dārayyā in JanuarySyria · 8 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 1.8°C · 41 mm rain
- Dūmā in JanuarySyria · 12 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 2.2°C · 24 mm rain
- Zahlé in JanuaryLebanon · 52 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Aley in JanuaryLebanon · 72 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.0°C · 123 mm rain
- Nabatîyé et Tahta in JanuaryLebanon · 76 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 5.6°C · 121 mm rain
- Jounieh in JanuaryLebanon · 81 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.9°C · 144 mm rain
- Beirut in JanuaryLebanon · 85 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.8°C · 144 mm rain
- Sidon in JanuaryLebanon · 85 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 8.6°C · 213 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.