Climate averages 1991–2020
Ţarţūs weather
in October.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a warm month in Ţarţūs: daytime highs average 27.4°C and nights cool to about 19.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 47 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes October a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 20 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tripoli, Lebanon (51 km away). In October its highs average 27.0°C, about as warm as Ţarţūs, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ţarţūs ranks 7th of 18 for the warmest October highs and 17th of 18 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 18 cities is 27.2°C; Ţarţūs is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.7°C to 21.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 47 mm to 79 mm.
The annual picture
October 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Tripoli, Lebanon in OctoberLebanon · 51 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 19.3°C · 42 mm rain
- Latakia in OctoberSyria · 72 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 19.5°C · 66 mm rain
- Homs in OctoberSyria · 79 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 14.5°C · 11 mm rain
- Ḩamāh in OctoberSyria · 84 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 15.7°C · 12 mm rain
- Jounieh in OctoberLebanon · 104 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.5°C · 30 mm rain
- As Salamīyah in OctoberSyria · 107 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 15.5°C · 11 mm rain
- Zahlé in OctoberLebanon · 116 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 12.8°C · 18 mm rain
- Beirut in OctoberLebanon · 116 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 18.1°C · 30 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.