Climate averages 1991–2020
Latakia weather
in January.
A cool, very wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Latakia: daytime highs average 14.3°C and nights cool to about 9.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 226 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 03 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Samandağ (63 km away). In January its highs average 13.5°C, 0.8°C cooler than Latakia, with 131 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Latakia ranks 2nd of 18 for the warmest January highs and 18th of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; Latakia is 2.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 15.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 226 mm to 161 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
Latakia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Samandağ in JanuaryTurkey · 63 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 7.0°C · 131 mm rain
- Ţarţūs in JanuarySyria · 72 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 8.5°C · 135 mm rain
- Antakya in JanuaryTurkey · 82 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 5.2°C · 107 mm rain
- Idlib in JanuarySyria · 88 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 2.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in JanuarySyria · 98 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Arsuz (approximate) in JanuaryTurkey · 98 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 130 mm rain
- Tripoli, Lebanon in JanuaryLebanon · 122 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 8.4°C · 146 mm rain
- İskenderun in JanuaryTurkey · 122 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.8°C · 106 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.