Homs
City in Syria: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
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Overview
Homs is a city in Syria. About 775,404 people live in the city proper, making it the 3rd largest city of Syria in our atlas.
It lies at 34.72° N, 36.73° E, about 508 m (1,667 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Damascus time zone.
Location
Red dot: Homs. Green dots: other major cities of Syria. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Homs has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 35°C (96°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 0°C (33°F). Around 250 mm (10 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jan.
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
- Ḩamāh · 45 km
- Ţarţūs · 79 km
- Latakia · 124 km
- Idlib · 134 km
- Damascus · 140 km
- Aleppo · 169 km
- Al Bāb · 196 km
- Ar Raqqah · 249 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 169577 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q131301 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Homs syria3: No machine-readable author provided. Ss6sam6 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- AL Karama stadium: Firas1977 (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bassel Assad Stadium, Baba Amr, Homs, 8 May 2014: Preacher lad, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
