Climate averages 1991–2020
Arsuz weather
in August.
A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
Approximate: the model cell is 409 m higher than the city, so the temperatures are adjusted up by 2.7°C. For places not marked Approximate, the cell is within 400 m of the place's elevation.
August is a hot month in Arsuz: daytime highs average 32.1°C and nights cool to about 26.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 5.5 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes August a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 33 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is İskenderun (32 km away). In August its highs average 32.6°C, about as warm as Arsuz, with 2.1 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Arsuz ranks joint 48th of 138 for the warmest August highs and 53rd of 138 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 138 cities is 31.1°C; Arsuz is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.2°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 5.5 mm to 32 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Arsuz climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 130 | 12.3 | 10.010 h |
| February | 14.3°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 124 | 11.3 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.2°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 109 | 11.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.8°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 75 | 9.8 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.9°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 47 | 6.7 | 14.114 h |
| June | 28.7°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 15 | 3.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 31.5°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 6.1 | 1.9 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 32.1°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 5.5 | 2.0 | 13.514 h |
| September | 29.9°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 32 | 5.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.1°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 72 | 8.4 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.8°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 84 | 7.8 | 10.310 h |
| December | 14.9°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 123 | 11.9 | 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
August in nearby cities
- İskenderun in AugustTurkey · 32 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 24.5°C · 2.1 mm rain
- Antakya in AugustTurkey · 33 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 1.6 mm rain
- Samandağ in AugustTurkey · 38 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.0°C · 6.5 mm rain
- Ceyhan in AugustTurkey · 68 kmHigh 33.7°C · Low 24.5°C · 10 mm rain
- Osmaniye in AugustTurkey · 80 kmHigh 33.7°C · Low 23.1°C · 6.9 mm rain
- Adana in AugustTurkey · 81 kmHigh 34.7°C · Low 23.9°C · 6.0 mm rain
- Idlib in AugustSyria · 86 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 20.9°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Latakia in AugustSyria · 98 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.3°C · 3.8 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 Arsuz) is explained once on the Arsuz year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.