Climate averages 1991–2020
Ţarţūs weather
in February.
A mild, wet month: the 11th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a mild month in Ţarţūs: daytime highs average 16.1°C and nights cool to about 8.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 120 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes February a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 54 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tripoli, Lebanon (51 km away). In February its highs average 16.2°C, about as warm as Ţarţūs, with 126 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ţarţūs ranks 1st of 18 for the warmest February highs and 17th of 18 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 18 cities is 13.8°C; Ţarţūs is 2.3°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 18.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 120 mm to 107 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Tripoli, Lebanon in FebruaryLebanon · 51 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 8.7°C · 126 mm rain
- Latakia in FebruarySyria · 72 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 9.3°C · 161 mm rain
- Homs in FebruarySyria · 79 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 3.6°C · 35 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in FebruarySyria · 84 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 4.7°C · 42 mm rain
- Jounieh in FebruaryLebanon · 104 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 8.3°C · 140 mm rain
- As Salamīyah in FebruarySyria · 107 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.6°C · 28 mm rain
- Zahlé in FebruaryLebanon · 116 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 0.7°C · 81 mm rain
- Beirut in FebruaryLebanon · 116 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 8.0°C · 140 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.