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Damascus Governorate · 1,569,394 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:27

Air: Fair

16°

Clear sky

Feels like 16°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

18 km/h

Humidity

67 %

Pressure

1016 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:50 Set 17:46 Day 10 h 55 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

20°16°

Feels like 20°

Wind ↑ SW 16 km/h

Gusts 44 km/h

Humidity 46 %

00:00

14°

W 5

Damascus forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.6° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Damascus 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.

Day and night differ most in August: 34 °C in the afternoon against 18 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

From May to October, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from June to September; the typical peak is 34 °C in August.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 23 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	11 °C	2 °C	44 mm
Feb	12 °C	3 °C	38 mm
Mar	16 °C	5 °C	26 mm
Apr	22 °C	9 °C	12 mm
May	27 °C	13 °C	8 mm
Jun	32 °C	17 °C	1 mm
Jul	34 °C	18 °C	0 mm
Aug	34 °C	18 °C	0 mm
Sep	31 °C	17 °C	1 mm
Oct	26 °C	13 °C	8 mm
Nov	18 °C	7 °C	22 mm
Dec	12 °C	3 °C	33 mm
Whole year	23 °C	11 °C	190 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 33.51° N, 36.29° 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 Damascus: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.512µg/m³

PM1021µg/m³

O₃57µg/m³

NO₂7µg/m³

SO₂6µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone

BirchNone

GrassLow

MugwortNone

OliveNone

RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Damascus

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

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

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

Moon over Damascus

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 02:01 Set 17:34

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 Damascus

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

Damascus weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Damascus, Damascus Governorate: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 14 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Beirut 85 km 22°

Ra’s Bayrūt 86 km 20°

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