Climate averages 1991–2020
Homs 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 Homs: daytime highs average 12.8°C and nights cool to about 2.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 07 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is As Salamīyah (44 km away). In January its highs average 12.5°C, about as warm as Homs, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Homs ranks 5th of 18 for the warmest January highs and 6th of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; Homs is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 14.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 39 mm to 35 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
Homs climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.8°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 39 | 8.5 | 10.110 h |
| February | 14.2°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 35 | 7.4 | 10.911 h |
| March | 18.0°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 28 | 6.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.0°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 14 | 3.7 | 13.013 h |
| May | 27.9°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 11 | 2.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 31.5°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 14.414 h |
| July | 33.7°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.214 h |
| August | 33.9°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 13.513 h |
| September | 31.6°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 1.5 | 0.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.9°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 11 | 2.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.7°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 18 | 4.2 | 10.410 h |
| December | 14.5°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 32 | 6.9 | 9.910 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 · 44 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 3.8°C · 30 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in JanuarySyria · 45 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Ţarţūs in JanuarySyria · 79 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 8.5°C · 135 mm rain
- Tripoli, Lebanon in JanuaryLebanon · 87 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 8.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Zahlé in JanuaryLebanon · 123 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Latakia in JanuarySyria · 124 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 9.0°C · 226 mm rain
- Jounieh in JanuaryLebanon · 131 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.9°C · 144 mm rain
- Dūmā in JanuarySyria · 132 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 2.2°C · 24 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 Homs) is explained once on the Homs year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.