Climate averages 1991–2020
Dūmā 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 Dūmā: daytime highs average 11.5°C and nights cool to about 2.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry 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 (12 km away). In January its highs average 10.9°C, 0.6°C cooler than Dūmā, with 41 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Dūmā ranks 11th of 18 for the warmest January highs and 1st of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; Dūmā is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 13.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 24 mm to 18 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
Dūmā climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 11.5°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 24 | 5.0 | 10.210 h |
| February | 13.2°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 18 | 4.4 | 11.011 h |
| March | 17.9°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 13 | 3.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 4.3 | 1.3 | 13.013 h |
| May | 28.7°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 4.0 | 1.0 | 13.914 h |
| June | 33.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 14.314 h |
| July | 36.1°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.114 h |
| August | 35.9°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.413 h |
| September | 32.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.5°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 3.3 | 0.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 18.5°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 11 | 2.5 | 10.510 h |
| December | 13.3°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 16 | 3.7 | 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
- Damascus in JanuarySyria · 12 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 1.2°C · 41 mm rain
- Dārayyā in JanuarySyria · 20 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 1.8°C · 41 mm rain
- Zahlé in JanuaryLebanon · 55 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Aley in JanuaryLebanon · 79 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.0°C · 123 mm rain
- Jounieh in JanuaryLebanon · 86 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.9°C · 144 mm rain
- Nabatîyé et Tahta in JanuaryLebanon · 88 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 5.6°C · 121 mm rain
- Beirut in JanuaryLebanon · 91 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.8°C · 144 mm rain
- Sidon in JanuaryLebanon · 96 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 Dūmā) is explained once on the Dūmā year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.