Damascus weather by month & the best time to visit

🇸🇾 Syria · major city break · semi-arid climate

The best time to visit Damascus is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 99/100), with October and April close behind. Damascus averages about 3,468 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 30°C / 86°F and roughly 7 mm of rain in May.

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Sun hours / year

3,468

Sunniest month

May

Peak score

99/100

Rain / year

288 mm

Midday UV at peak

11 (extreme)

Population

2.5M

Elevation

609 m

When is the best time to visit Damascus?

For sunshine, the best time to visit Damascus is May, then October and April. The dullest month is January (36/100, 69 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.

How sunny is Damascus?

Damascus is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,468 hours of sunshine a year. 63 Sunshine Score points separate May (99) from January (36), so the month you pick matters. Damascus is the sunniest of the 4 destinations tracked in Syria. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 64% of the year's 288 mm falls in the three months around January.

Sunshine Score by month

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Nearby places for sunshine

• Beirut Lebanon · 105 km · best in Jun · 3,247 h sun/yr
• Amman Jordan · 194 km · best in May · 3,559 h sun/yr
• Tel Aviv Israel · 218 km · best in May · 3,298 h sun/yr
• Larnaca Cyprus · 312 km · best in Jun · 3,200 h sun/yr
• Antakya Türkiye · 329 km · best in May · 3,038 h sun/yr
• Ercan (North Nicosia) Cyprus · 337 km · best in Jun · 3,011 h sun/yr

Nearest destinations

• Haifa Israel · 153 km · 3,334 h sun/yr · best in Aug
• Latakia Syria · 227 km · 3,135 h sun/yr · best in May
• Gurayat Saudi Arabia · 234 km · 3,747 h sun/yr · best in Oct

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