Climate averages 1991–2020
Çanakkale 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 Çanakkale: daytime highs average 9.5°C and nights cool to about 3.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 84 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 40 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ayvalık (96 km away). In January its highs average 10.8°C, 1.3°C warmer than Çanakkale, with 137 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Çanakkale ranks joint 37th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 70th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Çanakkale is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 10.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 84 mm to 81 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
Çanakkale climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.5°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 84 | 10.0 | 9.710 h |
| February | 10.5°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 81 | 9.6 | 10.611 h |
| March | 13.1°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 73 | 9.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.4°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 53 | 7.7 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.6°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 42 | 6.3 | 14.414 h |
| June | 27.5°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 26 | 5.2 | 15.015 h |
| July | 30.1°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 14 | 2.5 | 14.715 h |
| August | 30.2°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 6.7 | 1.8 | 13.814 h |
| September | 25.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 38 | 4.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.3°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 74 | 6.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 15.3°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 73 | 7.3 | 10.010 h |
| December | 10.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 94 | 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
- Ayvalık in JanuaryTurkey · 96 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 7.0°C · 137 mm rain
- Tekirdağ in JanuaryTurkey · 130 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 2.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Bandırma in JanuaryTurkey · 135 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 3.1°C · 80 mm rain
- Balıkesir in JanuaryTurkey · 138 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.7°C · 76 mm rain
- Soma in JanuaryTurkey · 149 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 97 mm rain
- Lüleburgaz in JanuaryTurkey · 160 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low 0.6°C · 59 mm rain
- Çorlu in JanuaryTurkey · 162 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 1.1°C · 60 mm rain
- Edirne in JanuaryTurkey · 170 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low -0.6°C · 53 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 Çanakkale) is explained once on the Çanakkale year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.