Climate averages 1991–2020
Ţarţūs weather
in May.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the 5th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Ţarţūs: daytime highs average 25.6°C and nights cool to about 16.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 58 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tripoli, Lebanon (51 km away). In May its highs average 25.6°C, about as warm as Ţarţūs, with 16 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ţarţūs ranks 17th of 18 for the warmest May highs and 17th of 18 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 18 cities is 28.6°C; Ţarţūs is 3.0°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 39 mm to 11 mm.
The annual picture
May 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Tripoli, Lebanon in MayLebanon · 51 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 17.9°C · 16 mm rain
- Latakia in MaySyria · 72 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 17.3°C · 41 mm rain
- Homs in MaySyria · 79 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 13.9°C · 11 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in MaySyria · 84 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 15.2°C · 12 mm rain
- Jounieh in MayLebanon · 104 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 16.6°C · 17 mm rain
- As Salamīyah in MaySyria · 107 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 15.0°C · 12 mm rain
- Zahlé in MayLebanon · 116 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 12.3°C · 19 mm rain
- Beirut in MayLebanon · 116 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 16.2°C · 17 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.