Climate averages 1991–2020

Manbij weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and one of the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 10.2°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 1.9°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 49 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Manbij · average highYear overview

January is a cool month in Manbij: daytime highs average 10.2°C and nights cool to about 1.9°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 (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 58 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Al Bāb (43 km away). In January its highs average 10.4°C, about as warm as Manbij, with 49 mm of rain.

Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Manbij ranks joint 17th 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; Manbij is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 12.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 49 mm to 44 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530354045 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Manbij climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Manbij, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 10.2°C1.9°C1.9°C499.110.010 h
February 12.2°C2.6°C2.6°C447.910.811 h
March 17.1°C6.0°C6.0°C387.211.912 h
April 23.0°C10.5°C10.5°C255.313.113 h
May 29.1°C15.4°C15.4°C173.714.114 h
June 34.7°C20.1°C20.1°C2.40.514.615 h
July 38.3°C22.8°C22.8°C0.40.114.414 h
August 37.9°C22.8°C22.8°C0.30.113.614 h
September 33.2°C19.4°C19.4°C2.70.612.412 h
October 26.5°C14.6°C14.6°C233.711.311 h
November 17.6°C7.6°C7.6°C335.310.310 h
December 11.7°C3.5°C3.5°C498.29.710 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

Distance from Manbij

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Manbij) is explained once on the Manbij year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.