Al-Harmushiyah

Al-Harmushiyah (هرموشية, Harmoushieh) is a town in eastern Syria, administratively part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. The town is located, on the Euphrates northwest of the city of Deir ez-Zor. It is across the Euphrates from the town of Al-Tabni.

In 1961 Soviet geologists discovered very pure salt deposits near the town.

During the Syrian Civil War, the town was occupied by ISIL until the SDF captured it on 4 October 2017.

Climate
Al-Harmushiyah has a desert climate. What little rain falls, falls during the winter, about 150 mm annually. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is BWh. The average annual temperature in Al-Harmushiyah is 20.2 °C.