Damascus
It is 66.2°F at Damascus Int. Airport, 03:00 local on Monday. Damascus is the 70th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean.
03:00 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins
Normal for this date here is a high of 90.3°F.
Monday, 17 July 1978
Source: GHCN-Daily
Thursday, 2 December 1982
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 102.2°F, set in 2004. Today reached 66.2°F.
The whole record bookWhere Damascus stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #70
- of 139
- Hottest month
- July
- 99.1°F
- Widest annual swing
- #25
- of 139
Damascus by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan56.5°FHigh 73.8°F · 11 Jan 2010Low 10.0°F · 17 Jan 1982
- Feb59.2°FHigh 82.4°F · 16 Feb 2010Low 10.4°F · 10 Feb 1992
- Mar66.2°FHigh 93.9°F · 24 Mar 2008Low 17.6°F · 2 Mar 1976
- Apr76.8°FHigh 101.1°F · 20 Apr 2021Low 18.5°F · 11 Apr 1997
- May86.0°FHigh 106.5°F · 24 May 2019Low 33.8°F · 2 May 1981
- Jun94.6°FHigh 111.2°F · 17 Jun 2012Low 40.1°F · 4 Jun 1990
- Jul · warmest
Nearby, hottest and coldest
5 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Damascus by annual mean.
- Avarua 81.1°F
- Flying Fish Cove 81.1°F
- Hong Kong 79.0°F
- Macau 78.4°F
- Antananarivo 77.4°F
- Kathmandu 77.2°F
How Damascus’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Damascus?
The archive held here for Damascus, Syria starts in 1973, which is 52 years of record, across 24,708 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Damascus's temperature?
Damascus Int. Airport (OSDI), 608 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Damascus?
114.8°F, on 17 July 1978, in the record held for Damascus Int. Airport. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Damascus?
5.9°F, on 2 December 1982, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from WMO SYNOP bulletins at Damascus Int. Airport. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.