Climate averages 1991–2020
Ţarţūs weather
in December.
A mild, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a mild month in Ţarţūs: daytime highs average 16.9°C and nights cool to about 10.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 122 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes December a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 52 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tripoli, Lebanon (51 km away). In December its highs average 17.6°C, 0.7°C warmer than Ţarţūs, with 145 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ţarţūs ranks 1st of 18 for the warmest December highs and 17th of 18 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 18 cities is 13.6°C; Ţarţūs is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.8°C to 15.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 122 mm to 135 mm.
The annual picture
December 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 | 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, selected | 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
December in nearby cities
- Tripoli, Lebanon in DecemberLebanon · 51 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 10.3°C · 145 mm rain
- Latakia in DecemberSyria · 72 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 10.4°C · 231 mm rain
- Homs in DecemberSyria · 79 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 4.5°C · 32 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in DecemberSyria · 84 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 5.3°C · 41 mm rain
- Jounieh in DecemberLebanon · 104 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 9.9°C · 133 mm rain
- As Salamīyah in DecemberSyria · 107 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Zahlé in DecemberLebanon · 116 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 2.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Beirut in DecemberLebanon · 116 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 9.7°C · 133 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.