Climate averages 1991–2020
Adana weather
in December.
A cool, wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Adana: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 5.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 139 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 41 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tarsus (39 km away). In December its highs average 14.1°C, about as warm as Adana, with 117 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Adana ranks joint 5th of 138 for the warmest December highs and 130th of 138 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 138 cities is 9.3°C; Adana is 5.2°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 12.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 139 mm to 107 mm.
The annual picture
December in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Adana climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12.8°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 107 | 9.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 14.5°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 82 | 8.4 | 10.811 h |
| March | 18.0°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 75 | 9.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.1°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 61 | 8.8 | 13.113 h |
| May | 26.6°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 51 | 7.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 30.9°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 16 | 4.0 | 14.715 h |
| July | 34.0°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 6.7 | 1.4 | 14.414 h |
| August | 34.7°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 6.0 | 1.5 | 13.614 h |
| September | 32.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 19 | 3.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 27.5°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 48 | 5.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 20.2°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 83 | 5.8 | 10.210 h |
| December, selected | 14.5°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 139 | 9.3 | 9.710 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
December in nearby cities
- Tarsus in DecemberTurkey · 39 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 6.5°C · 117 mm rain
- Ceyhan in DecemberTurkey · 44 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 5.8°C · 137 mm rain
- Mersin in DecemberTurkey · 64 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 6.8°C · 126 mm rain
- Kozan in DecemberTurkey · 68 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 4.6°C · 149 mm rain
- Kadirli in DecemberTurkey · 81 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 4.2°C · 90 mm rain
- Arsuz (approximate) in DecemberTurkey · 81 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 10.2°C · 123 mm rain
- Osmaniye in DecemberTurkey · 82 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 5.0°C · 102 mm rain
- İskenderun in DecemberTurkey · 88 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 8.8°C · 103 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Adana) is explained once on the Adana year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.