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Syria climate

Hot dry summers, mild winters. Browse cities below to find a city with detailed month-by-month records.

Popular cities:Aleppo · Damascus · Homs · Latakia · Ar Raqqah · Ḩamāh

Browse all 13 cities in Syria

Grouped by climate type, then by population.

BWh

Hot desert

6 cities

Damascuspop 1.6M Homspop 775k Ar Raqqahpop 532k Ḩamāhpop 461k Deir ez-Zorpop 272k Al Qunayţirahpop 36k

Csa

Hot-summer Mediterranean

4 cities

Latakiapop 709k Ţarţūspop 458k Al Ḩasakahpop 422k Idlibpop 129k

BSk

Cold semi-arid

3 cities

Aleppopop 2.1M Dar‘āpop 98k As-Suwaydapop 59k

A few cities, to show the range

A spread picked to show how different the climate gets across Syria.

Cold semi-aridBSk

Hot-summer MediterraneanCsa

Climate types in Syria

Syria spans 3 climate types. All climate types:

BWh Hot desert · 6 cities Csa Hot-summer Mediterranean · 4 cities BSk Cold semi-arid · 3 cities

Climate records across Syria — warmest, coolest, wettest, driest

Warmest Idlib (69.5 °F avg) · Coolest Al Ḩasakah (60.2 °F avg) · Wettest Idlib (30 in/yr) · Driest Damascus (2 in/yr)These are the extreme ends of our city records, not typical conditions — most of Syria sits well between them.