Aleppo
City in Syria: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Aleppo, View of the city, Syria: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Aleppo is a city in Syria. About 2.1 million people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Syria in our atlas.
It lies at 36.20° N, 37.16° E, about 401 m (1,316 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Damascus time zone.
Location
Red dot: Aleppo. Green dots: other major cities of Syria. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Aleppo has a Mediterranean (hot summer) climate (Köppen Csa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 38°C (100°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 1°C (33°F). Around 434 mm (17 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Dec.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in SyriaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Al Bāb · 37 km
- Idlib · 56 km
- Ḩamāh · 124 km
- Latakia · 144 km
- Ar Raqqah · 168 km
- Homs · 169 km
- Ţarţūs · 185 km
- Deir ez-Zor · 284 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 170063 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q41183 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Aleppo, View of the city, Syria: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Entrance of the National Museum Aleppo Syria: No machine-readable author provided. Xvlun~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Al-Hamadaniya stad Aleppo1: Nouh Hammami, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Aleppo Public Park view3: Spetsnaz 1991, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hammam Yalbougha al-Nasri, Aleppo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Saadallah al-Jabiri square, Aleppo (1): Preacher lad, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Aleppo Grand Seray: MlleAlxVuk, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Homsi statue Alp: Preacher lad, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 7 April stadium Aleppo (2): http://www.ittihadhalap.com, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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