Climate averages 1991–2020
Damascus weather
in May.
A warm, very dry month: the 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Damascus: daytime highs average 27.9°C and nights cool to about 12.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 8.0 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes May a very dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 52 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dārayyā (8 km away). In May its highs average 27.6°C, about as warm as Damascus, with 8.0 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Damascus ranks joint 13th of 18 for the warmest May highs and joint 3rd of 18 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 18 cities is 28.6°C; Damascus is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 32.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 8.0 mm to under 1 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 22.4°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 11 | 3.0 | 13.013 h |
| May, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Dārayyā in MaySyria · 8 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 12.9°C · 8.0 mm rain
- Dūmā in MaySyria · 12 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 13.5°C · 4.0 mm rain
- Zahlé in MayLebanon · 52 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 12.3°C · 19 mm rain
- Aley in MayLebanon · 72 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 11.3°C · 18 mm rain
- Nabatîyé et Tahta in MayLebanon · 76 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 14.2°C · 20 mm rain
- Jounieh in MayLebanon · 81 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 16.6°C · 17 mm rain
- Beirut in MayLebanon · 85 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 16.2°C · 17 mm rain
- Sidon in MayLebanon · 85 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 16.6°C · 20 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.