Climate and average weather in Inkhil

In Inkhil, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: mid March to late May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Inkhil typically varies from 4°C to 34°C, and is rarely below -0°C or above 38°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Inkhil for warm-weather activities are from mid March to late May and early October to late November.

Hottest
Aug
34°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
42 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
177 mm
36 wet days
Daylight
9.8–14.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
623 m
33.0°N
Clearest
Jul
2% cloud

Inkhil is Area in Syria.

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

Inkhil 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 March to late May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.8 months, from May 19 to October 11, with daily high temperatures above 29°C. The hottest month of the year in Inkhil is August, with an average high of 34°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from December 2 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in Inkhil is January, with an average low of 4°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in June.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan134
Feb155
Mar187
Apr2310
May2914
Jun3217
Jul3419
Aug3419
Sep3218
Oct2815
Nov219
Dec155

How hot and cold Inkhil 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, Inkhil feels like about 34°C (around August 13). About 98 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan131314
Feb151525
Mar181857
Apr2323910
May28291414
Jun32321717
Jul34341919
Aug34341919
Sep32321818
Oct28281515
Nov212189
Dec151535

Average hourly temperature in Inkhil

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 August afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Inkhil weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan13° / 427.510.14.1
Feb15° / 376.810.84.9
Mar18° / 275.411.76.9
Apr23° / 10°103.112.88.4
May29° / 14°51.513.77.5
Jun32° / 17°10.214.15.5
Jul34° / 19°00.1144.2
Aug34° / 19°00.113.24.1
Sep32° / 18°10.412.25.4
Oct28° / 15°61.511.27.7
Nov21° / 173.810.37.8
Dec15° / 305.69.95.3

Chance of rain

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

Inkhil gets about 177 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 5.5 months, from around Oct 31 to Apr 16, peaking in February at about 27% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 1.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 42 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetFeb 1 · 27%Jul 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan248
Feb247
Mar175
Apr113
May52
Jun10
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct52
Nov124
Dec186

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Inkhil collects about 177 mm of rain across 36 wet days — roughly 15 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 42 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 62% of the year’s total.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec423727105100161730
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan428
Feb377
Mar275
Apr103
May52
Jun10
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct62
Nov174
Dec306

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Inkhil, 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 April 30 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around November 1. 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 November 2 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around April 29. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 38% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 22 · 100%Jan 4 · 61%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6238
Feb6436
Mar7228
Apr8119
May9010
Jun991
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct9010
Nov7624
Dec6337

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 14, brings about 14 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 9 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.16:434:46
Feb10.86:275:14
Mar11.75:535:38
Apr12.85:116:00
May13.74:416:23
Jun14.14:316:41
Jul14.04:426:41
Aug13.25:036:16
Sep12.25:245:36
Oct11.25:464:56
Nov10.36:134:29
Dec9.96:374:27

Sunny days

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

Inkhil averages about 22 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around May 6 to Oct 24. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 13 sunny days — about 57% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2830 daysFeb 912 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar16Bright
Apr18Bright
May25Brilliant
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
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 Inkhil, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around June 23 to September 23. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 64% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 24 to June 22, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 25 · 100%Aug 10 · 30%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May94500
Jun543880
Jul1439435
Aug7295510
Sep3441232
Oct792020
Nov98200
Dec100000

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Inkhil is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around Jan 31 to Aug 30. The windiest month is July, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 31 to Jan 30, with October the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 19 · 15 km/hOct 16 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb12light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May12light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul15light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep11calm
Oct9calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Inkhil

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Inkhil 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 Inkhil for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid March to late May and again from early October to late November, with a peak score in the third week of April.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 21 · 8.6

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
Jan4.1fair
Feb4.9fair
Mar6.9good
Apr8.3ideal
May7.5good
Jun5.5fair
Jul4.2fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep5.4fair
Oct7.7ideal
Nov7.7ideal
Dec5.3fair

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 Inkhil for hot-weather activities is from late April to late October, with a peak score in the last week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 23 · 9.1

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 Inkhil, 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 August (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 13°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Inkhil sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Inkhil 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 Inkhil peaks around June 22 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 12 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJun 22UV 11Jan 12UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar5High
Apr7High
May9Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct7High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Inkhil

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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)
Jan00
Feb30
Mar5.50
Apr6.53
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep7.55
Oct5.52
Nov40
Dec1.50

Air quality in Inkhil 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 Inkhil is worst in April — around 55 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.7× the cleanest month (July, 33 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorApr 1055 µg/m³Jul 2133 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan48Poor
Feb54Poor
Mar54Poor
Apr55Unhealthy
May46Poor
Jun37Poor
Jul33Moderate
Aug34Moderate
Sep42Poor
Oct48Poor
Nov50Poor
Dec51Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free day

Inkhil is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan9223
Feb947
Mar990
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec970

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)

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. Inkhil banks about 3,067 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb6
Mar85
Apr202
May347
Jun435
Jul512
Aug520
Sep448
Oct346
Nov150
Dec16

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.

Inkhil receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.7 and 8.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 25 to Sep 29. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.8 kWh/m² — roughly 66% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 258.1 kWhDec 212.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.0Moderate
Feb3.9Moderate
Mar5.2Bright
Apr6.5Intense
May7.5Intense
Jun8.1Intense
Jul7.9Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.2Intense
Oct4.7Bright
Nov3.4Moderate
Dec2.7Moderate

Where is Inkhil?

Inkhil sits at 33.0°N, 36.1°E, 623 m above sea level, in Syria. The nearest listed city is Jāsim, 7.0 km away.

Al Ḩirāk

Topography around Inkhil

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Inkhil has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 64 m around an average of 626 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 534 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,090 m.

The land around Inkhil is covered by cropland (80%) within 3 km, cropland (86%) within 16 km, and cropland (36%) and grassland (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
64 m
16 km
534 m
80 km
3,090 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Jāsim 7.0 km · Aş Şanamayn 8.0 km · Nawá 17 km · Shaykh Miskīn 21 km · Dā‘il 29 km · Al Qunayţirah 31 km · Ţafas 32 km · Al Ḩirāk 34 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 Inkhil (33.0181°, 36.1283°, elevation 623 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).