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Will it rain today in Damascus?

Should you take an umbrella in Damascus? The forecast below loads live every time you open the page: rain now, when the next shower comes, and how much falls today and tomorrow.

Rain right now

No rain expected in Damascus for the rest of today. Tomorrow: 1.1 mm of rain.

Rain now0 mm/hdry
Next rain09:00Saturday 17 October
Today0.4 mm0 wet hours
Tomorrow1.1 mm3 wet hours

As of 2026-10-16 17:35 UTC (NOAA GFS snapshot). Updating live…

Rain every 3 hours, today and tomorrow

Today · Friday 16 October

Dry: no rain in the forecast. (the forecast covers part of the day)

Every 3 hours as a table
HoursRain (mm)mm/hType
12:00–15:000.30.1dry
15:00–18:000.10dry
18:00–21:0000dry
21:00–00:0000dry

Tomorrow · Saturday 17 October

1.1 mm of rain, 3 wet hours, up to 0.1 mm/h.

Every 3 hours as a table
HoursRain (mm)mm/hType
00:00–03:000.10dry
03:00–06:000.20.1dry
06:00–09:000.20.1dry
09:00–12:000.30.1light · rain
12:00–15:000.20.1dry
15:00–18:000.10dry
18:00–21:0000dry
21:00–00:000.10dry

Times in local time (Asia/Damascus). Each bar is the rain over 3 hours; striped bars are snow.

Rain map around Damascus

The same NOAA GFS precipitation on the map, moving hour by hour: blue light, darker heavy. Tap for the value.

Open the rain map on Damascus

How much it rains in Damascus, month by month

Damascus gets about 288 mm of rain a year. The wettest month is January (69 mm), the driest July (0 mm); a normal October brings 13 mm.

Average monthly rain and snow (water equivalent) 2001–2025, NASA POWER (MERRA-2 reanalysis, public domain), on a ~50 km grid: mountains and coasts can differ locally.

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Questions

Will it rain today in Damascus?
At 16 October 2026 the forecast said: No rain expected in Damascus for the rest of today. Tomorrow: 1.1 mm of rain. The box at the top of the page loads the latest NOAA GFS forecast every time you open it, with the time the next rain starts.
How much does it rain in Damascus?
About 288 mm a year on average (2001–2025). January is the wettest month with 69 mm, July the driest with 0 mm.
What do the rain amounts mean?
1 mm is a litre of water per square metre. Under 2.5 mm an hour is light rain (a drizzle to a steady rain), 2.5–7.6 moderate, above 7.6 heavy: you get soaked in minutes and streets can flood.
How accurate is the forecast?
It is the global NOAA GFS model on a 0.25° grid every 3 hours: good at telling a rainy day from a dry one, less at placing a single summer thunderstorm. Check the rain map for the showers moving around Damascus.

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How this page works

The rain is the one the rain layer of the map paints: NOAA GFS forecast (public domain), precipitation rate averaged over 3 hours, read at Damascus and summed per local day. Rain or snow comes from the GFS precipitation type. The monthly normals are NASA POWER. No third-party weather service.