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Ar Raqqah weather

Raqqa · 531,952 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:56

Mainly clear
21°
Mainly clear
Feels like 26°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
11 km/h
Humidity
72 %
Pressure
1013 hPa
Clouds
32 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:43 Set 17:31 Day 10 h 48 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
21°19°
Feels like 26°
Wind ↑ E 9 km/h
Gusts 15 km/h
Humidity 72 %
21:00
Partly cloudy
19°
E 9
00:00
Mainly clear
19°
SW 10

Ar Raqqah forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
14°17°21°24°27°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed24°17°Thu 29 Oct: max 22° · min 18° · normal 19.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 23° · min 17° · normal 19.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 23° · min 16° · normal 19.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 23° · min 16° · normal 19.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 24° · min 16° · normal 18.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 25° · min 17° · normal 18.4°Wed 4 Nov: max 24° · min 17° · normal 18.1°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu14°21°27°25°16°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Ar Raqqah climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 190 mm of rain — less than 96% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 40 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 4 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 25 °C.

Day and night differ most in June: 38 °C in the afternoon against 23 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

From June to September, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 23 °C, 7 °C cooler than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan12 °C4 °C34 mm
Feb15 °C5 °C29 mm
Mar20 °C9 °C27 mm
Apr25 °C13 °C19 mm
May32 °C18 °C11 mm
Jun38 °C23 °C1 mm
Jul40 °C25 °C0 mm
Aug40 °C25 °C0 mm
Sep35 °C21 °C1 mm
Oct30 °C17 °C16 mm
Nov20 °C9 °C25 mm
Dec14 °C5 °C31 mm
Whole year27 °C15 °C190 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.95° N, 39.01° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Ar Raqqah: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.56µg/m³
PM107µg/m³
O₃63µg/m³
NO₂1µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Ar Raqqah

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Ar Raqqah, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Ar Raqqah yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Ar Raqqah

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:40 Set 17:31
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Damascus); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Ar Raqqah

Curious about the weather in Ar Raqqah on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Ar Raqqah weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Ar Raqqah, Raqqa: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 21 °C (feels like 26 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 22 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations