Climate averages 1991–2020
Çanakkale weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Çanakkale: daytime highs average 13.1°C and nights cool to about 6.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ayvalık (96 km away). In March its highs average 13.6°C, about as warm as Çanakkale, with 84 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Çanakkale ranks joint 56th of 138 for the warmest March highs and joint 68th of 138 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 138 cities is 12.5°C; Çanakkale is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.3°C to 17.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 73 mm to 53 mm.
The annual picture
March 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 | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Ayvalık in MarchTurkey · 96 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 8.8°C · 84 mm rain
- Tekirdağ in MarchTurkey · 130 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 4.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Bandırma in MarchTurkey · 135 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 4.9°C · 70 mm rain
- Balıkesir in MarchTurkey · 138 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 3.9°C · 67 mm rain
- Soma in MarchTurkey · 149 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 4.0°C · 82 mm rain
- Lüleburgaz in MarchTurkey · 160 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 3.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Çorlu in MarchTurkey · 162 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.3°C · 60 mm rain
- Edirne in MarchTurkey · 170 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 2.9°C · 54 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.