Climate averages 1991–2020
Ţarţūs weather
in August.
A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Ţarţūs: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 23.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 4.4 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes August a very dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 28 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tripoli, Lebanon (51 km away). In August its highs average 31.4°C, about as warm as Ţarţūs, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ţarţūs ranks 17th of 18 for the warmest August highs and 18th of 18 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 18 cities is 36.0°C; Ţarţūs is 4.8°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 4.4 mm to 18 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
Ţarţūs climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.1°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 135 | 13.7 | 10.110 h |
| February | 16.1°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 120 | 12.0 | 10.911 h |
| March | 18.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 107 | 11.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.0°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 66 | 8.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 25.6°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 39 | 5.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 28.5°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 11 | 3.4 | 14.514 h |
| July | 30.6°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 3.6 | 1.5 | 14.314 h |
| August, selected | 31.2°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 4.4 | 1.6 | 13.513 h |
| September | 30.0°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 18 | 3.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.4°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 47 | 6.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 21.7°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 79 | 8.0 | 10.410 h |
| December | 16.9°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 122 | 11.7 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Tripoli, Lebanon in AugustLebanon · 51 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 24.3°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Latakia in AugustSyria · 72 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.3°C · 3.8 mm rain
- Homs in AugustSyria · 79 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 20.5°C · 0.3 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in AugustSyria · 84 kmHigh 35.8°C · Low 21.4°C · 0.6 mm rain
- Jounieh in AugustLebanon · 104 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 22.6°C · 0.8 mm rain
- As Salamīyah in AugustSyria · 107 kmHigh 35.3°C · Low 20.9°C · 0.6 mm rain
- Zahlé in AugustLebanon · 116 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 18.7°C · 0.6 mm rain
- Beirut in AugustLebanon · 116 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 22.5°C · 0.8 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 Ţarţūs) is explained once on the Ţarţūs year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.