Climate averages 1991–2020
Balıkesir weather
in January.
A cool, moderately 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 Balıkesir: daytime highs average 8.8°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 76 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 43 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Soma (57 km away). In January its highs average 9.3°C, about as warm as Balıkesir, with 97 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Balıkesir ranks joint 49th of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 60th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Balıkesir is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 10.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 76 mm to 72 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
Balıkesir climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.8°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 76 | 10.8 | 9.710 h |
| February | 10.4°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 72 | 10.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 13.4°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 67 | 10.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.1°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 53 | 8.7 | 13.213 h |
| May | 23.3°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 41 | 7.3 | 14.314 h |
| June | 28.0°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 30 | 6.1 | 14.915 h |
| July | 30.6°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 11 | 2.4 | 14.715 h |
| August | 30.7°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 7.9 | 2.3 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.7°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 23 | 3.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 21.2°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 48 | 6.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 15.4°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 55 | 7.1 | 10.010 h |
| December | 10.3°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 80 | 10.9 | 9.49 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 · 57 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 97 mm rain
- Mustafakemalpaşa in JanuaryTurkey · 62 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 1.8°C · 83 mm rain
- Bandırma in JanuaryTurkey · 79 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 3.1°C · 80 mm rain
- Akhisar in JanuaryTurkey · 81 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Nilüfer in JanuaryTurkey · 108 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 2.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Ayvalık in JanuaryTurkey · 109 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 7.0°C · 137 mm rain
- Bursa in JanuaryTurkey · 117 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.9°C · 95 mm rain
- Manisa in JanuaryTurkey · 122 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.2°C · 112 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 Balıkesir) is explained once on the Balıkesir year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.