Ar Raqqah
City in Syria: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
ArRaqqah collection: sea each photo for its author and license., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Ar Raqqah is a city in Syria, in Raqqa. About 531,952 people live in the city proper, making it the 5th largest city of Syria in our atlas.
It lies at 35.95° N, 39.01° E, about 259 m (850 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Damascus time zone.
Location
Red dot: Ar Raqqah. Green dots: other major cities of Syria. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Ar Raqqah has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 40°C (104°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 0°C (32°F). Around 277 mm (11 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
- Deir ez-Zor · 123 km
- Al Bāb · 142 km
- Al Ḩasakah · 168 km
- Aleppo · 168 km
- Idlib · 213 km
- Ḩamāh · 222 km
- Al Qāmishlī · 234 km
- Homs · 246 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 172955 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q283368 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- ArRaqqah collection: sea each photo for its author and license., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Tuttul,tombs: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Museum of Ar Raqqah: Amir syria, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Raqqa,QasrBanatO: Bertramz, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
