Climate averages 1991–2020

Ţarţūs weather
in September.

A hot, fairly dry month: the 3rd warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 30.0°C Daytime mean, September
Average low 22.1°C Night-time mean, September
Rainfall 18 mm 4 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Ţarţūs · average highYear overview

September is a hot month in Ţarţūs: daytime highs average 30.0°C and nights cool to about 22.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 18 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes September a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 26 min on an average September day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tripoli, Lebanon (51 km away). In September its highs average 29.9°C, about as warm as Ţarţūs, with 7.0 mm of rain.

Among the 18 cities listed in Syria, Ţarţūs ranks 17th of 18 for the warmest September highs and 17th of 18 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 18 cities is 32.7°C; Ţarţūs is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.

From September to October, average highs fall by 2.6°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 18 mm to 47 mm.

The annual picture

September in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 5101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages 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

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Ţarţūs, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 15.1°C8.5°C8.5°C13513.710.110 h
February 16.1°C8.7°C8.7°C12012.010.911 h
March 18.6°C10.6°C10.6°C10711.611.912 h
April 22.0°C13.3°C13.3°C668.913.013 h
May 25.6°C16.8°C16.8°C395.514.014 h
June 28.5°C20.4°C20.4°C113.414.514 h
July 30.6°C23.1°C23.1°C3.61.514.314 h
August 31.2°C23.7°C23.7°C4.41.613.513 h
September, selected 30.0°C22.1°C22.1°C183.612.412 h
October 27.4°C19.0°C19.0°C476.311.311 h
November 21.7°C14.0°C14.0°C798.010.410 h
December 16.9°C10.1°C10.1°C12211.79.910 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

September in nearby cities

Distance from Ţarţūs

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 limits

How 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.