Climate averages 1991–2020
Arsuz 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.
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.
January is a cool month in Arsuz: daytime highs average 13.2°C and nights cool to about 8.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 130 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 59 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is İskenderun (32 km away). In January its highs average 12.4°C, 0.8°C cooler than Arsuz, with 106 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Arsuz ranks 4th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 126th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Arsuz is 5.8°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 14.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 130 mm to 124 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
Arsuz climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- İskenderun in JanuaryTurkey · 32 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.8°C · 106 mm rain
- Antakya in JanuaryTurkey · 33 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 5.2°C · 107 mm rain
- Samandağ in JanuaryTurkey · 38 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 7.0°C · 131 mm rain
- Ceyhan in JanuaryTurkey · 68 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 127 mm rain
- Osmaniye in JanuaryTurkey · 80 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.3°C · 107 mm rain
- Adana in JanuaryTurkey · 81 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.1°C · 107 mm rain
- Idlib in JanuarySyria · 86 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 2.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Latakia in JanuarySyria · 98 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 9.0°C · 226 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.