Climate averages 1991–2020
Ayvalık 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 Ayvalık: daytime highs average 10.8°C and nights cool to about 7.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 137 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 44 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Soma (80 km away). In January its highs average 9.3°C, 1.5°C cooler than Ayvalık, with 97 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Ayvalık ranks joint 25th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 130th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Ayvalık is 3.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 11.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 137 mm to 122 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
Ayvalık climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.8°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 137 | 11.4 | 9.710 h |
| February | 11.5°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 122 | 10.8 | 10.711 h |
| March | 13.6°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 84 | 8.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.0°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 64 | 7.2 | 13.213 h |
| May | 21.7°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 34 | 3.9 | 14.314 h |
| June | 26.4°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 9.7 | 1.6 | 14.915 h |
| July | 29.1°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 14.615 h |
| August | 29.4°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 1.7 | 0.2 | 13.714 h |
| September | 25.4°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 26 | 2.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.7°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 78 | 5.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 16.1°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 122 | 8.9 | 10.110 h |
| December | 12.2°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 145 | 12.0 | 9.59 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
- Soma in JanuaryTurkey · 80 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 97 mm rain
- Çanakkale in JanuaryTurkey · 96 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 3.9°C · 84 mm rain
- Manisa in JanuaryTurkey · 101 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.2°C · 112 mm rain
- Karşıyaka in JanuaryTurkey · 102 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.6°C · 98 mm rain
- Bornova in JanuaryTurkey · 105 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.3°C · 111 mm rain
- İzmir in JanuaryTurkey · 108 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.0°C · 111 mm rain
- Akhisar in JanuaryTurkey · 108 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Balıkesir in JanuaryTurkey · 109 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.7°C · 76 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 Ayvalık) is explained once on the Ayvalık year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.