Climate and average weather in Subaykhān

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

Best: late February to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Subaykhān typically varies from 4°C to 41°C, and is rarely below -0°C or above 44°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 Subaykhān for warm-weather activities are from late February to late April and late October to late November.

Hottest
Jul
41°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
25 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
132 mm
27 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
188 m
34.9°N
Clearest
Jul
1% cloud

Subaykhān is town in Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

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

Subaykhān 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 February to late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from May 21 to September 28, with daily high temperatures above 34°C. The hottest month of the year in Subaykhān is July, with an average high of 41°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 25 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 18°C. The coldest month of the year in Subaykhān is January, with an average low of 4°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan134
Feb166
Mar2110
Apr2715
May3320
Jun3825
Jul4127
Aug4027
Sep3623
Oct3018
Nov2110
Dec156

How hot and cold Subaykhān 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, Subaykhān feels like about 41°C (around July 26). About 151 days a year carry some heat stress, and 67 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan131324
Feb161646
Mar2121910
Apr27271515
May33332020
Jun38382525
Jul41412727
Aug40402727
Sep36362323
Oct30301818
Nov2121910
Dec151536

Average hourly temperature in Subaykhān

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 41°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Subaykhān 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° / 255.59.94.3
Feb16° / 194.310.75.9
Mar21° / 10°194.111.77.8
Apr27° / 15°122.512.97.9
May33° / 20°6113.84.6
Jun38° / 25°0014.31.5
Jul41° / 27°0014.10.0
Aug40° / 27°0013.30.1
Sep36° / 23°00.112.22.5
Oct30° / 18°101.911.16.4
Nov21° / 10°183.510.27.9
Dec15° / 234.59.75.2

Chance of rain

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

Subaykhān gets about 132 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 6.2 months, from around Oct 22 to Apr 29, peaking in January at about 18% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 3.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 25 mm over about 6 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainJan 27 · 18%Jun 3 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan176
Feb164
Mar134
Apr83
May31
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct62
Nov124
Dec155

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Subaykhān collects about 132 mm of rain across 27 wet days — roughly 11 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 51% of the year’s total.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec25191912600101823
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan256
Feb194
Mar194
Apr123
May61
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct102
Nov184
Dec235

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Subaykhān, 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 12 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 22. 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 23 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 11. The cloudiest month is January, 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 27 · 100%Jan 18 · 67%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6733
Feb7129
Mar7525
Apr7822
May8614
Jun982
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct8713
Nov7525
Dec6832

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 8, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan9.96:304:24
Feb10.76:114:53
Mar11.75:355:19
Apr12.94:525:44
May13.84:196:08
Jun14.34:086:28
Jul14.14:196:27
Aug13.34:426:01
Sep12.25:055:18
Oct11.15:294:36
Nov10.25:594:07
Dec9.76:244:04

Sunny days

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

Subaykhān averages about 22 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 5.2 months, from around May 14 to Oct 18. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 16 sunny days — about 47% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2630 daysJan 1815 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr18Bright
May24Brilliant
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
Nov19Bright
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 Subaykhān, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr9820
May9640
Jun9640
Jul79192
Aug72254
Sep86140
Oct8991
Nov9370
Dec10000

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 Subaykhān is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around Apr 5 to Sep 9. The windiest month is July, averaging about 20 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 10 to Apr 4, with November the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJul 9 · 20 km/hNov 9 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb12light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun18light breeze
Jul20light breeze
Aug17light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct10calm
Nov10calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Subaykhān

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Subaykhān sees seasonal dust haze (March–June), heaviest in May.

Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Subaykhān

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Subaykhān 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 Subaykhān for general outdoor tourist activities run from late February to late April and again from late October to late November, with a peak score in the first week of April.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 6 · 8.4

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
Jan4.4fair
Feb5.9good
Mar7.8ideal
Apr7.8ideal
May4.6fair
Jun1.5poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.2poor
Sep2.5poor
Oct6.4good
Nov7.8ideal
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 times of year to visit Subaykhān for hot-weather activities run from early April to late May and again from late September to early November, with a peak score in the third week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 17 · 8.6

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 Subaykhān, 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 41°C), the essentials are light clothes, sun protection and a windbreaker. 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 July, Subaykhān sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: a windbreaker.

UV index (midday) in Subaykhān 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 Subaykhān peaks around June 16 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 13 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJun 16UV 10Jan 13UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May7Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct5Moderate
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Subaykhān

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 5.5 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)
Jan00
Feb30
Mar50
Apr6.51.5
May7.54
Jun8.55.5
Jul7.54
Aug7.55
Sep60
Oct4.50
Nov30
Dec00

Air quality in Subaykhān 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 Subaykhān is worst in July — around 62 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.8× the cleanest month (November, 34 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorPoorJul 1761 µg/m³Nov 1935 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan39Poor
Feb42Poor
Mar53Poor
Apr53Poor
May59Unhealthy
Jun56Unhealthy
Jul62Unhealthy
Aug57Unhealthy
Sep46Poor
Oct43Poor
Nov34Moderate
Dec38Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free day

Subaykhān 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
Jan9218
Feb965
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec950

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. Subaykhān banks about 4,345 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb32
Mar168
Apr320
May509
Jun637
Jul739
Aug731
Sep595
Oct430
Nov167
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.

Subaykhān receives about 5.6 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 6.3 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 27. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.1 kWh/m² (intense).

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

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 298.1 kWhDec 222.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.1Moderate
Feb4.1Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr6.7Intense
May7.6Intense
Jun8.1Intense
Jul8.0Intense
Aug7.4Intense
Sep6.2Intense
Oct4.6Bright
Nov3.4Moderate
Dec2.7Moderate

Where is Subaykhān?

Subaykhān sits at 34.9°N, 40.6°E, 188 m above sea level, in Syria. The nearest listed city is Al Mayādīn, 23 km away.

Ālbū KamālAl Qā’imDeir ez-Zor‘Anat al Qadīmah‘AnahḨadīthah

Topography around Subaykhān

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Subaykhān has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 17 m around an average of 183 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 70 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 287 m.

The land around Subaykhān is covered by cropland (54%) within 3 km, bare terrain (62%) and cropland (23%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (89%) within 80 km.

3 km
17 m
16 km
70 m
80 km
287 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Al Mayādīn 23 km · Hajīn 27 km · Ālbū Kamāl 53 km · Al Qā’im 62 km · Deir ez-Zor 68 km · ‘Anat al Qadīmah 130 km · ‘Anah 137 km · Ḩadīthah 181 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 Subaykhān (34.8531°, 40.5999°, elevation 188 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).