Climate averages 1991–2020
Latakia weather
in August.
A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Latakia: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 3.8 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes August a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 30 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Samandağ (63 km away). In August its highs average 31.6°C, 2.2°C warmer than Latakia, with 6.5 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Latakia ranks 18th of 18 for the warmest August highs and 17th of 18 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 18 cities is 36.0°C; Latakia is 6.6°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 3.8 mm to 24 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Latakia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.3°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 226 | 14.3 | 10.010 h |
| February | 15.2°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 161 | 11.5 | 10.911 h |
| March | 17.4°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 116 | 10.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 75 | 8.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 23.5°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 41 | 5.8 | 14.014 h |
| June | 26.4°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 13 | 3.4 | 14.515 h |
| July | 28.6°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 4.3 | 1.8 | 14.314 h |
| August, selected | 29.4°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 3.8 | 1.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 28.3°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 24 | 3.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 25.9°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 66 | 6.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 20.6°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 124 | 8.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 15.9°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 231 | 12.4 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Samandağ in AugustTurkey · 63 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.0°C · 6.5 mm rain
- Ţarţūs in AugustSyria · 72 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.7°C · 4.4 mm rain
- Antakya in AugustTurkey · 82 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 1.6 mm rain
- Idlib in AugustSyria · 88 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 20.9°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in AugustSyria · 98 kmHigh 35.8°C · Low 21.4°C · 0.6 mm rain
- Arsuz (approximate) in AugustTurkey · 98 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 26.0°C · 5.5 mm rain
- Tripoli, Lebanon in AugustLebanon · 122 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 24.3°C · 0.2 mm rain
- İskenderun in AugustTurkey · 122 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 24.5°C · 2.1 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 Latakia) is explained once on the Latakia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.