Climate and average weather in An Nabk

In An Nabk, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: mid April to mid June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in An Nabk typically varies from 1°C to 32°C, and is rarely below -4°C or above 36°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit An Nabk for warm-weather activities are from mid April to mid June and mid September to early November.

Hottest
Jul
32°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
25 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
155 mm
39 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,272 m
34.0°N
Clearest
Jul
5% cloud

An Nabk is place in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria.

Founded
1101

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

An Nabk weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid April to mid June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in An Nabk, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.1 months, from May 26 to September 28, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in An Nabk is July, with an average high of 32°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 28 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 13°C. The coldest month of the year in An Nabk is January, with an average low of 1°C and high of 8°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan81
Feb102
Mar144
Apr198
May2512
Jun2916
Jul3219
Aug3219
Sep2916
Oct2312
Nov166
Dec102

How hot and cold An Nabk really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, An Nabk feels like about 33°C (around July 28). About 40 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -2°C (around January 28), with roughly 65 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan88-21
Feb1010-12
Mar141424
Apr191978
May25251212
Jun29291616
Jul32321919
Aug32321919
Sep29291616
Oct23231212
Nov161656
Dec101012

Average hourly temperature in An Nabk

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

An Nabk weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / 256.22.5101.7
Feb10° / 215.81.910.72.7
Mar14° / 235.90.711.74.9
Apr19° / 174.20.112.87.3
May25° / 12°163.5013.78.4
Jun29° / 16°20.6014.27.3
Jul32° / 19°00.10145.5
Aug32° / 19°10.3013.35.6
Sep29° / 16°20.6012.27.8
Oct23° / 12°133.2011.18.4
Nov16° / 174.2010.25.7
Dec10° / 194.80.99.82.8

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

An Nabk gets about 155 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.0 months, from around Oct 18 to May 18, peaking in January at about 21% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 29.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 25 mm over about 6 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainJan 28 · 21%Jun 29 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb206
Mar196
Apr144
May114
Jun21
Jul00
Aug10
Sep21
Oct103
Nov144
Dec165

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, An Nabk collects about 155 mm of rain across 39 wet days — roughly 13 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 25 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 45% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec25212317162012131719
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2563
Feb2162
Mar2361
Apr1740
May1640
Jun210
Jul000
Aug100
Sep210
Oct1330
Nov1740
Dec1951

Snow in An Nabk

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

An Nabk averages about 6 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 6 to Mar 26 — about 3.6 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 2 days of snow and an estimated 8 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 24 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 3
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan38
Feb28
Mar13
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec15

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In An Nabk, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 11 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 21. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 100% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 22 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 10. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 35% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 3 · 100%Dec 10 · 64%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb6832
Mar7327
Apr7624
May8614
Jun982
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct8713
Nov7525
Dec6535

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 16, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 9 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.06:434:41
Feb10.76:265:10
Mar11.75:515:35
Apr12.85:085:59
May13.74:366:22
Jun14.24:266:41
Jul14.04:376:41
Aug13.34:596:16
Sep12.25:215:34
Oct11.15:444:52
Nov10.26:124:24
Dec9.86:374:22

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

An Nabk averages about 21 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 13 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around May 13 to Oct 18. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 14 sunny days — about 53% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 630 daysDec 1013 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb14Mixed
Mar17Bright
Apr17Bright
May23Bright
Jun28Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug30Brilliant
Sep28Brilliant
Oct23Bright
Nov17Bright
Dec14Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In An Nabk, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul982
Aug982
Sep991
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in An Nabk is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 18 · 8 km/hAug 17 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit An Nabk

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in An Nabk throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late April, An Nabk is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit An Nabk for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid April to mid June and again from mid September to early November, with a peak score in the first week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 4 · 8.9

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan1.8poor
Feb2.7poor
Mar4.9fair
Apr7.3good
May8.4ideal
Jun7.3good
Jul5.5good
Aug5.6good
Sep7.7ideal
Oct8.4ideal
Nov5.7good
Dec2.9poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit An Nabk for hot-weather activities is from mid May to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 12 · 9.4

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for An Nabk, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 32°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 8°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, An Nabk sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in An Nabk by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in An Nabk peaks around June 20 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 11 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJun 20UV 11Jan 11UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar5High
Apr8Very high
May9Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct7High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in An Nabk

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan1.50
Feb40
Mar5.50
Apr73.5
May85.5
Jun96.5
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep74.5
Oct62.5
Nov40
Dec20

Air quality in An Nabk by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in An Nabk is worst in April — around 37 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.6× the cleanest month (July, 23 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateApr 1437 µg/m³Jul 2023 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan28Moderate
Feb32Moderate
Mar34Moderate
Apr37Poor
May33Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug24Moderate
Sep29Moderate
Oct31Moderate
Nov29Moderate
Dec29Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

An Nabk is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 20 to December 2 (258 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 2090%Dec 290%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan5831
Feb6728
Mar8917
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov980
Dec8131

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. An Nabk banks about 2,360 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar4
Apr107
May261
Jun383
Jul479
Aug480
Sep376
Oct233
Nov37
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

An Nabk receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.8 and 8.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 26. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.9 kWh/m² — roughly 65% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 298.3 kWhDec 202.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.2Moderate
Feb4.2Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr6.7Intense
May7.5Intense
Jun8.2Intense
Jul8.2Intense
Aug7.6Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct4.7Bright
Nov3.5Moderate
Dec2.9Moderate

Where is An Nabk?

An Nabk sits at 34.0°N, 36.7°E, 1,272 m above sea level, in Syria. The nearest listed city is Yabrūd, 9.0 km away.

Al QuţayfahBaalbekEl HermelAl Qaryatayn

Topography around An Nabk

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of An Nabk.

Within 3 km, the terrain around An Nabk has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 158 m around an average of 1,289 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,279 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,896 m.

The land around An Nabk is covered by bare terrain (71%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, bare terrain (78%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (50%) and grassland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
158 m
16 km
1,279 m
80 km
2,896 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Yabrūd 9.0 km · Qārah 15 km · Jayrūd 24 km · Aarsâl 33 km · Al Quţayfah 34 km · Baalbek 47 km · El Hermel 52 km · Al Qaryatayn 52 km

Syria travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / E / L
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 32% of US
price level, 2022
GDP per capita
$1,057
2022
Happiness
3.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2018
Homicide rate
2.1
per 100k, 2010
Road deaths
14.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 456
Religion
Muslim 87%Christian 10%Druze 3%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for An Nabk (34.024°, 36.7285°, elevation 1,272 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).