Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for ‘Irbīn
‘Irbīn climate by month
Cold semi-arid · BSkBest Mar–Apr · Nov
Annual mean17°day and night
Seasonal swing21°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation245 mm41 wet days a year
33.54° N, 36.37° EElevation 688 mUTC+3
When to go‘Irbīn · weather score
Best timeMar–Apr · Nov
October: high / low28° / 11°
iSummary
What the weather is like
‘Irbīn has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 37° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 12° and lows of 1°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 21°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 245 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (54 mm, 8 wet days) and August the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in July to 28% in January.
Compared with Damascus, the capital, ‘Irbīn is 0.5° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 37° · July
- Coldest nights
- 1° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- July · 1% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 22 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 57 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 12° | 14° | 19° | 24° | 30° | 34° | 37° | 37° | 34° | 28° | 20° | 14° |
| Average low | 1° | 2° | 5° | 8° | 12° | 16° | 19° | 19° | 16° | 11° | 6° | 2° |
| Precipitation | 54 mm | 46 mm | 33 mm | 13 mm | 8 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 12 mm | 34 mm | 43 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.3 | 7 | 4.8 | 3 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 5.2 | 6.3 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 26% | 22% | 20% | 12% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 3% | 11% | 21% | 28% |
| Daylight | 10h 10 | 10h 59 | 11h 56 | 13h 00 | 13h 53 | 14h 22 | 14h 10 | 13h 25 | 12h 25 | 11h 23 | 10h 27 | 9h 57 |
| Month score | 50 | 63 | 89 | 93 | 75 | 61 | 58 | 58 | 61 | 80 | 88 | 65 |
ivMonth by month
‘Irbīn in every month
January50
12° / 1°
54 mm · 8.3 wet days
February63
14° / 2°
46 mm · 7 wet days
March89
19° / 5°
33 mm · 4.8 wet days
April93
24° / 8°
13 mm · 3 wet days
May75
30° / 12°
8 mm · 2.1 wet days
June61
34° / 16°
1 mm · 0.3 wet days
July58
37° / 19°
0 mm · 0.2 wet days
August58
37° / 19°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
September61
34° / 16°
1 mm · 0.7 wet day
October80
28° / 11°
12 mm · 2.8 wet days
November88
20° / 6°
34 mm · 5.2 wet days
December65
14° / 2°
43 mm · 6.3 wet days