Climate averages 1991–2020
Bismil weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Bismil: daytime highs average 8.3°C and nights cool to about -0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 52 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Diyarbakır (40 km away). In January its highs average 7.0°C, 1.4°C cooler than Bismil, with 93 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Bismil ranks joint 58th of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 43rd of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Bismil is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 10.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 69 mm to 71 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
Bismil climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.3°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 69 | 10.4 | 9.910 h |
| February | 10.5°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 71 | 10.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 81 | 11.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.7°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 75 | 10.4 | 13.213 h |
| May | 26.5°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 48 | 8.6 | 14.214 h |
| June | 33.8°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 5.6 | 1.8 | 14.715 h |
| July | 38.9°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 14.515 h |
| August | 38.9°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 33.6°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 5.3 | 1.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.9°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 37 | 4.8 | 11.211 h |
| November | 16.4°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 49 | 6.5 | 10.210 h |
| December | 10.0°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 70 | 9.6 | 9.610 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
- Diyarbakır in JanuaryTurkey · 40 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -1.3°C · 93 mm rain
- Batman in JanuaryTurkey · 42 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low -0.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Mardin in JanuaryTurkey · 60 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -2.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Kızıltepe in JanuaryTurkey · 73 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 68 mm rain
- Midyat in JanuaryTurkey · 76 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low -1.1°C · 88 mm rain
- Al Qāmishlī in JanuarySyria · 102 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.9°C · 72 mm rain
- Viranşehir in JanuaryTurkey · 106 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 1.4°C · 72 mm rain
- Siirt in JanuaryTurkey · 113 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -3.9°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 Bismil) is explained once on the Bismil year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.