Discover the best time of year, based on historical climate, temperature, and precipitation.
The best weather in Daraa is from April, October, November. — consistent weather climate
🌡Hot & dry
| Score | 39 | 51 | 72 | 93 | 88 | 72 | 49 | 50 | 66 | 94 | 92 | 57 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate | Cold | Cold | Mild | Pleasant | Pleasant | Pleasant | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Pleasant | Mild | Mild |
| Temperature | 5–14°C | 5–16°C | 8–20°C | 11–26°C | 15–30°C | 18–33°C | 20–36°C | 20–35°C | 19–34°C | 16–29°C | 11–22°C | 7–17°C |
| Feels like | 2–11°C | 2–13°C | 5–17°C | 9–23°C | 14–28°C | 19–32°C | 22–35°C | 23–35°C | 20–33°C | 16–28°C | 9–20°C | 4–14°C |
| Precipitation | 58mm 12 days | 47mm 9 days | 37mm 9 days | 21mm 5 days | 7mm 2 days | 1mm 1 days | 0mm 0 days | 1mm 1 days | 1mm 1 days | 8mm 2 days | 31mm 5 days | 38mm 8 days |
| Sunshine | 8.5h ☀︎ 83% | 9.1h ☀︎ 83% | 10.2h ☀︎ 85% | 11.7h ☀︎ 90% | 12.6h ☀︎ 91% | 13.1h ☀︎ 92% | 13.1h ☀︎ 94% | 12.7h ☀︎ 95% | 11.5h ☀︎ 93% | 10.4h ☀︎ 92% | 9.2h ☀︎ 88% | 8.2h ☀︎ 82% |
| Wind | S · 18 km/h | SW · 19 km/h | SW · 21 km/h | W · 20 km/h | W · 23 km/h | W · 23 km/h | W · 23 km/h | W · 22 km/h | W · 19 km/h | W · 17 km/h | SE · 17 km/h | S · 16 km/h |
| Humidity (%) | 73% | 69% | 64% | 52% | 46% | 51% | 55% | 59% | 57% | 56% | 62% | 69% |
| Day length | 10.3h | 11.0h | 12.0h | 13.0h | 13.8h | 14.3h | 14.1h | 13.3h | 12.4h | 11.4h | 10.5h | 10.0h |
Daraa sees its heaviest traffic during the punishing heat of midsummer solely because of the border, meaning travelers routinely endure the city at its most suffocating while ignoring the pristine calm of autumn.
Daraa is not a place you visit for a polished holiday. Sitting in the basalt cradle of the Hauran plain, just miles above the Jordanian frontier, it is an essential crossroads—anchoring the long transit corridor between Damascus and Amman. Travelers come here out of purpose: tracing the modern fault lines of Syrian history as the cradle of the 2011 uprising, or traversing the trade route toward the southern border. The landscape is broad, stony, and exposed. Because it serves as a way station, its pulse is dictated almost entirely by the highway, meaning that timing your passage here can mean the difference between a suffocating, dust-blown bottleneck and a crisp, contemplative journey across fertile southern soil.
If you have any choice in when you travel through Daraa, make it October or November. By mid-autumn, the brutal summer furnace finally shatters. The air over the Hauran plateau cools into clear, golden daylight with afternoon temperatures settling into the comfortable twenties, while the dust that blankets the roadsides is tempered by occasional gentle rains.
October offers the cleanest light of the year, illuminating the dark volcanic stones of the surrounding villages without the blinding glare of the summer sun. November brings crisper afternoons and brisk evenings, yet movement along the Damascus–Amman highway remains fluid and unhurried. For anyone looking to understand the reality of the city and its surrounding farmland away from the chaos of peak transit seasons, this brief autumn window is unparalleled.
Winter in Daraa is far colder and damper than most travelers anticipate. From December through February, low-pressure systems push inland from the Mediterranean, funneling damp cold across the flat terrain. The thermometer frequently hovers in the low teens, but cutting winds make it feel significantly colder, especially when walking the unshielded concrete avenues and open fields toward Ataman.
Rainfall peaks in January, not as violent downpours, but as persistent, gray drizzling that turns the dark basalt earth into heavy mud. While border transit toward Jordan ticks upward again in February, the atmosphere remains austere. It is a bleak, introspective time of year to see the city, requiring heavy wool layers and low expectations for outdoor comfort.
Spring arrives quickly in March, transforming the traditionally stony expanse around al-Yaduda and Umm al-Mayazen with an unexpected carpet of wild grasses and agricultural growth. By April, the days are bright, expansive, and warm, offering nearly twelve hours of crisp sunshine without the punishing desert bite that follows.
This is the second ideal period for weather, but it brings a sharp increase in activity. Movement along the regional arteries accelerates as families, truckers, and regional travelers take advantage of the mild air before the dry season. May marks the transition into early summer; the greenery dries into brittle straw, afternoon temperatures touch thirty degrees, and the air begins to gather the dense heat of the inland desert.
July represents a baffling contradiction in Daraa: it is statistically the most congested month of the year despite featuring by far the most hostile weather. As regional border traffic peaks toward the crossing at Nasib, the city swells with vehicles, exhaust, and waiting travelers under a merciless sun. Temperatures routinely press into the mid-thirties, with stagnant, dry heat radiating off the tarmac and concrete with zero reprieve from rain.
August and September offer little relief from the thermal strain, though the border-bound crowds begin to thin slightly by late summer. Midday between June and September is purely functional; movement slows to a crawl, public life retreats into shaded interiors, and the southern plains turn into a bleached, shimmering haze. If you must pass through during these months, cross during the earliest hours of the morning before the sun turns the border highway into an open-air oven.