Climate and average weather in Jayrūd

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

Best: late March to late May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Jayrūd typically varies from 2°C to 34°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 38°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 Jayrūd for warm-weather activities are from late March to late May and late September to mid November.

Hottest
Jul
34°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
20 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
94 mm
24 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
815 m
33.8°N
Clearest
Aug
3% cloud

Jayrūd is place in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria.

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

Jayrūd 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 late March to late May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 24 to September 28, with daily high temperatures above 28°C. The hottest month of the year in Jayrūd is July, with an average high of 34°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 27 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 15°C. The coldest month of the year in Jayrūd is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 10°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan102
Feb123
Mar166
Apr229
May2714
Jun3217
Jul3420
Aug3420
Sep3117
Oct2513
Nov177
Dec123

How hot and cold Jayrūd 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, Jayrūd feels like about 35°C (around July 27). About 79 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -1°C (around January 22), with roughly 43 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)
Jan1010-12
Feb121203
Mar161636
Apr212289
May27271414
Jun32321717
Jul34341920
Aug34342020
Sep30311717
Oct25251313
Nov171767
Dec121213

Average hourly temperature in Jayrūd

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

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

Jayrūd 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
Jan10° / 204.81.8102.5
Feb12° / 164.21.210.73.7
Mar16° / 143.80.411.76.3
Apr22° / 71.9012.88.3
May27° / 14°61.3013.78.3
Jun32° / 17°00.1014.25.9
Jul34° / 20°000144.1
Aug34° / 20°00013.34.3
Sep31° / 17°10.2012.26.6
Oct25° / 13°41.2011.18.8
Nov17° / 122.7010.26.7
Dec12° / 143.40.69.83.6

Chance of rain

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

Jayrūd gets about 94 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 5.4 months, from around Oct 26 to Apr 8, peaking in February at about 17% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 16.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 20 mm over about 5 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainFeb 6 · 17%Jun 16 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan155
Feb154
Mar124
Apr62
May41
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct41
Nov93
Dec113

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Jayrūd collects about 94 mm of rain across 24 wet days — roughly 8 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 20 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec20161476000141214
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2052
Feb1641
Mar1440
Apr720
May610
Jun000
Jul000
Aug000
Sep100
Oct410
Nov1230
Dec1431

Snow in Jayrūd

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.

Jayrūd averages about 4 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 9 to Feb 27 — about 2.7 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.7 days of snow and an estimated 5 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 13 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 13
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan25
Feb15
Mar01
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec13

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Jayrūd, 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 8 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 23. 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 24 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 7. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 33% 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 29 · 100%Dec 10 · 65%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6832
Feb7327
Mar7822
Apr8020
May8911
Jun991
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct8911
Nov7723
Dec6733

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 22, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 22, 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)
Jan10.06:434:42
Feb10.76:255:10
Mar11.75:515:35
Apr12.85:085:59
May13.74:376:22
Jun14.24:266:40
Jul14.04:376:40
Aug13.34:596:15
Sep12.25:215:34
Oct11.15:444:52
Nov10.26:124:25
Dec9.86:364:22

Sunny days

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

Jayrūd averages about 23 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 15 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around May 12 to Oct 19. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 15 sunny days — about 49% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 330 daysDec 1015 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr19Bright
May24Brilliant
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
Nov18Bright
Dec16Bright

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 Jayrūd, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in May, 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
Aug973
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 Jayrūd is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 14 · 10 km/hNov 21 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar10calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Jayrūd

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Jayrūd is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 15 · 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
Jan2.6poor
Feb3.8fair
Mar6.3good
Apr8.3ideal
May8.2ideal
Jun5.9good
Jul4.1fair
Aug4.3fair
Sep6.6good
Oct8.7ideal
Nov6.7good
Dec3.6fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 23 · 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 Jayrūd, 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 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 10°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Jayrūd sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Jayrūd 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 Jayrūd 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 Jayrūd

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 Jayrūd 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 Jayrūd 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%)

Jayrūd is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 27 to December 13 (290 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2790%Dec 1390%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7431
Feb8227
Mar950
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov990
Dec8921

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. Jayrūd banks about 2,738 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar31
Apr161
May316
Jun430
Jul522
Aug520
Sep416
Oct276
Nov66
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.

Jayrūd 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 6.3 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 27. 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 288.3 kWhDec 202.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.2Moderate
Feb4.2Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr6.8Intense
May7.6Intense
Jun8.2Intense
Jul8.2Intense
Aug7.6Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct4.8Bright
Nov3.5Moderate
Dec2.9Moderate

Where is Jayrūd?

Jayrūd sits at 33.8°N, 36.7°E, 815 m above sea level, in Syria. The nearest listed city is Al Quţayfah, 15 km away.

QārahDūmāḨarastāAt Tall‘Irbīn

Topography around Jayrūd

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Jayrūd has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 104 m around an average of 817 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,191 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,568 m.

The land around Jayrūd is covered by bare terrain (70%) within 3 km, bare terrain (78%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (57%) and grassland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
104 m
16 km
1,191 m
80 km
2,568 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Al Quţayfah 15 km · Yabrūd 20 km · An Nabk 24 km · Qārah 39 km · Dūmā 41 km · Ḩarastā 44 km · At Tall 45 km · ‘Irbīn 46 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 Jayrūd (33.8071°, 36.7386°, elevation 815 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).