Climate averages 1991–2020
Ţarţūs weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Ţarţūs: daytime highs average 18.6°C and nights cool to about 10.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 107 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tripoli, Lebanon (51 km away). In March its highs average 18.5°C, about as warm as Ţarţūs, with 93 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ţarţūs ranks joint 6th of 18 for the warmest March highs and 17th of 18 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 18 cities is 18.0°C; Ţarţūs is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 22.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 107 mm to 66 mm.
The annual picture
March 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Tripoli, Lebanon in MarchLebanon · 51 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 10.9°C · 93 mm rain
- Latakia in MarchSyria · 72 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 11.3°C · 116 mm rain
- Homs in MarchSyria · 79 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 6.4°C · 28 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in MarchSyria · 84 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 7.7°C · 31 mm rain
- Jounieh in MarchLebanon · 104 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 10.2°C · 105 mm rain
- As Salamīyah in MarchSyria · 107 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 7.5°C · 24 mm rain
- Zahlé in MarchLebanon · 116 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 3.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Beirut in MarchLebanon · 116 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 9.8°C · 105 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.