Climate averages 1991–2020
Ţarţūs weather
in January.
A mild, wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Ţarţūs: daytime highs average 15.1°C and nights cool to about 8.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 135 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 06 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tripoli, Lebanon (51 km away). In January its highs average 15.5°C, about as warm as Ţarţūs, with 146 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ţarţūs ranks 1st of 18 for the warmest January highs and 17th of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 12.0°C; Ţarţūs is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 16.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 135 mm to 120 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
Ţarţūs climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Tripoli, Lebanon in JanuaryLebanon · 51 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 8.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Latakia in JanuarySyria · 72 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 9.0°C · 226 mm rain
- Homs in JanuarySyria · 79 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 2.9°C · 39 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in JanuarySyria · 84 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Jounieh in JanuaryLebanon · 104 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.9°C · 144 mm rain
- As Salamīyah in JanuarySyria · 107 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 3.8°C · 30 mm rain
- Zahlé in JanuaryLebanon · 116 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Beirut in JanuaryLebanon · 116 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.8°C · 144 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.