Climate averages 1991–2020
Ḩamāh 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.
January is a cool month in Ḩamāh: daytime highs average 13.2°C and nights cool to about 3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 49 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 05 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is As Salamīyah (30 km away). In January its highs average 12.5°C, 0.7°C cooler than Ḩamāh, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ḩamāh ranks 4th of 18 for the warmest January highs and joint 9th of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; Ḩamāh is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 14.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 49 mm to 42 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
Ḩamāh climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 13.2°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 49 | 9.4 | 10.110 h |
| February | 14.9°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 42 | 8.5 | 10.911 h |
| March | 19.0°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 31 | 7.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 24.2°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 17 | 4.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 29.2°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 12 | 2.3 | 14.014 h |
| June | 33.1°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 1.8 | 0.6 | 14.514 h |
| July | 35.5°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.314 h |
| August | 35.8°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 13.513 h |
| September | 33.1°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 2.6 | 0.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 28.2°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 12 | 3.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 20.4°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 24 | 4.9 | 10.410 h |
| December | 14.8°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 41 | 7.6 | 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
- As Salamīyah in JanuarySyria · 30 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 3.8°C · 30 mm rain
- Homs in JanuarySyria · 45 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 2.9°C · 39 mm rain
- Ţarţūs in JanuarySyria · 84 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 8.5°C · 135 mm rain
- Idlib in JanuarySyria · 90 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 2.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Latakia in JanuarySyria · 98 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 9.0°C · 226 mm rain
- Tripoli, Lebanon in JanuaryLebanon · 114 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 8.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Aleppo in JanuarySyria · 124 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Samandağ in JanuaryTurkey · 127 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 7.0°C · 131 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 Ḩamāh) is explained once on the Ḩamāh year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.