Climate averages 1991–2020
Diyarbakır weather
in January.
A cold, 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 cold month in Diyarbakır: daytime highs average 7.0°C and nights cool to about -1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 93 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 51 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bismil (40 km away). In January its highs average 8.3°C, 1.4°C warmer than Diyarbakır, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Diyarbakır ranks joint 87th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 87th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Diyarbakır is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 9.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 93 mm to 87 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
Diyarbakır climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.0°C-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 93 | 10.7 | 9.910 h |
| February | 9.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 87 | 11.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 14.1°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 97 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.3°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 91 | 12.1 | 13.213 h |
| May | 25.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 63 | 9.9 | 14.214 h |
| June | 32.1°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 8.9 | 2.7 | 14.715 h |
| July | 37.3°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 1.4 | 0.4 | 14.515 h |
| August | 37.5°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 1.3 | 0.3 | 13.614 h |
| September | 32.3°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 8.3 | 1.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 24.5°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 46 | 6.0 | 11.211 h |
| November | 15.1°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 60 | 7.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 8.8°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 90 | 10.0 | 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
- Bismil in JanuaryTurkey · 40 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Batman in JanuaryTurkey · 80 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low -0.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Siverek in JanuaryTurkey · 81 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -1.6°C · 100 mm rain
- Mardin in JanuaryTurkey · 81 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -2.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Kızıltepe in JanuaryTurkey · 87 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 68 mm rain
- Viranşehir in JanuaryTurkey · 87 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 1.4°C · 72 mm rain
- Bingöl in JanuaryTurkey · 111 kmHigh 0.5°C · Low -7.3°C · 122 mm precipitation
- Midyat in JanuaryTurkey · 113 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low -1.1°C · 88 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 Diyarbakır) is explained once on the Diyarbakır year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.