Climate averages 1991–2020
Antakya weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Antakya: daytime highs average 12.7°C and nights cool to about 5.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 107 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 00 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Samandağ (22 km away). In January its highs average 13.5°C, 0.8°C warmer than Antakya, with 131 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Antakya ranks 7th of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 107th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Antakya is 5.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 14.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 107 mm to 103 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
Antakya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.7°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 107 | 12.5 | 10.010 h |
| February | 14.4°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 103 | 11.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 18.0°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 87 | 10.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.1°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 56 | 8.8 | 13.113 h |
| May | 26.4°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 33 | 5.9 | 14.114 h |
| June | 29.9°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 7.3 | 2.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 32.4°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 1.7 | 0.4 | 14.414 h |
| August | 33.0°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 1.6 | 0.5 | 13.514 h |
| September | 31.2°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 18 | 3.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.3°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 42 | 6.4 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.8°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 63 | 7.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 14.1°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 103 | 11.0 | 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
- Samandağ in JanuaryTurkey · 22 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 7.0°C · 131 mm rain
- Arsuz (approximate) in JanuaryTurkey · 33 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 130 mm rain
- İskenderun in JanuaryTurkey · 42 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.8°C · 106 mm rain
- Idlib in JanuarySyria · 53 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 2.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Latakia in JanuarySyria · 82 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 9.0°C · 226 mm rain
- Aleppo in JanuarySyria · 90 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Ceyhan in JanuaryTurkey · 96 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 127 mm rain
- Osmaniye in JanuaryTurkey · 97 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.3°C · 107 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 Antakya) is explained once on the Antakya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.