Climate averages 1991–2020
Alanya weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Alanya: daytime highs average 12.4°C and nights cool to about 5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 179 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 58 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Manavgat (57 km away). In January its highs average 12.4°C, about as warm as Alanya, with 196 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Alanya ranks joint 10th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 134th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Alanya is 5.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 13.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 179 mm to 131 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Alanya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.4°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 179 | 12.0 | 10.010 h |
| February | 13.1°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 131 | 10.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.9°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 94 | 9.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.2°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 63 | 8.7 | 13.113 h |
| May | 23.3°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 45 | 7.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 27.6°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 18 | 4.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 30.9°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 9.4 | 2.8 | 14.414 h |
| August | 31.1°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 11 | 3.7 | 13.614 h |
| September | 28.5°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 22 | 3.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.4°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 53 | 5.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 18.9°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 117 | 7.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 14.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 182 | 11.2 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Manavgat in JanuaryTurkey · 57 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.1°C · 196 mm rain
- Belek in JanuaryTurkey · 91 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 6.3°C · 237 mm rain
- Muratpaşa in JanuaryTurkey · 117 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 5.5°C · 214 mm rain
- Antalya in JanuaryTurkey · 123 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 4.5°C · 214 mm rain
- Karaman in JanuaryTurkey · 129 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -2.9°C · 45 mm rain
- Konya in JanuaryTurkey · 154 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -3.4°C · 39 mm rain
- Silifke in JanuaryTurkey · 174 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 7.1°C · 97 mm rain
- Isparta in JanuaryTurkey · 187 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -1.9°C · 110 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 Alanya) is explained once on the Alanya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.