Climate averages 1991–2020
Deir ez-Zor weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry 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 Deir ez-Zor: daytime highs average 12.5°C and nights cool to about 3.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 04 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ar Raqqah (123 km away). In January its highs average 12.2°C, about as warm as Deir ez-Zor, with 31 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Deir ez-Zor ranks joint 6th of 18 for the warmest January highs and 2nd of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; Deir ez-Zor is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 15.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 25 mm to 23 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
Deir ez-Zor climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.5°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 25 | 5.5 | 10.110 h |
| February | 15.1°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 23 | 4.8 | 10.911 h |
| March | 20.5°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 21 | 4.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 26.6°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 12 | 2.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 32.5°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 8.2 | 1.6 | 14.014 h |
| June | 37.4°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 14.514 h |
| July | 40.4°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.314 h |
| August | 40.0°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 0.1 | 0.1 | 13.513 h |
| September | 35.7°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 29.3°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 9.8 | 1.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.9°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 19 | 3.5 | 10.310 h |
| December | 13.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 24 | 5.0 | 9.810 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
- Ar Raqqah in JanuarySyria · 123 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 2.8°C · 31 mm rain
- Al Qā’im in JanuaryIraq · 130 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 4.3°C · 25 mm rain
- Al Ḩasakah in JanuarySyria · 141 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 2.3°C · 50 mm rain
- Al-Tabqa in JanuarySyria · 154 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.5°C · 32 mm rain
- Kızıltepe in JanuaryTurkey · 210 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 68 mm rain
- Viranşehir in JanuaryTurkey · 213 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 1.4°C · 72 mm rain
- Al Qāmishlī in JanuarySyria · 214 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.9°C · 72 mm rain
- Mardin in JanuaryTurkey · 226 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -2.8°C · 70 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 Deir ez-Zor) is explained once on the Deir ez-Zor year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.