Climate averages 1991–2020

Dārayyā 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.

Average high 10.8°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 1.8°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 41 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Dārayyā · average highYear overview

January is a cool month in Dārayyā: daytime highs average 10.8°C and nights cool to about 1.8°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 Damascus (8 km away). In January its highs average 10.9°C, about as warm as Dārayyā, with 41 mm of rain.

Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Dārayyā ranks 15th 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; Dārayyā is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 12.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 41 mm to 36 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -50510152025303540 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Dārayyā climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Dārayyā, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 10.8°C1.8°C1.8°C417.710.210 h
February 12.3°C2.4°C2.4°C367.111.011 h
March 16.7°C5.1°C5.1°C255.312.012 h
April 22.1°C8.9°C8.9°C113.013.013 h
May 27.6°C12.9°C12.9°C8.02.013.914 h
June 32.1°C15.9°C15.9°C0.60.214.314 h
July 34.9°C18.0°C18.0°C0.20.014.114 h
August 34.9°C18.3°C18.3°C0.30.013.413 h
September 31.8°C16.9°C16.9°C1.20.412.412 h
October 26.1°C13.3°C13.3°C7.72.111.411 h
November 18.0°C7.6°C7.6°C214.110.510 h
December 12.7°C3.7°C3.7°C315.910.010 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

Distance from Dārayyā

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Dārayyā) is explained once on the Dārayyā year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Damascus lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.