Climate averages 1991–2020
Damascus weather
in March.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Damascus: daytime highs average 17.0°C and nights cool to about 4.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dārayyā (8 km away). In March its highs average 16.7°C, about as warm as Damascus, with 25 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Damascus ranks joint 14th of 18 for the warmest March highs and joint 4th of 18 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 18 cities is 18.0°C; Damascus is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.4°C to 22.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 25 mm to 11 mm.
The annual picture
March 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Dārayyā in MarchSyria · 8 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 5.1°C · 25 mm rain
- Dūmā in MarchSyria · 12 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 5.6°C · 13 mm rain
- Zahlé in MarchLebanon · 52 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 3.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Aley in MarchLebanon · 72 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 4.3°C · 94 mm rain
- Nabatîyé et Tahta in MarchLebanon · 76 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 7.8°C · 95 mm rain
- Jounieh in MarchLebanon · 81 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 10.2°C · 105 mm rain
- Beirut in MarchLebanon · 85 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 9.8°C · 105 mm rain
- Sidon in MarchLebanon · 85 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 10.5°C · 107 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.