Climate averages 1991–2020
Diyarbakır weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Diyarbakır: daytime highs average 25.0°C and nights cool to about 12.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 12 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bismil (40 km away). In May its highs average 26.5°C, 1.6°C warmer than Diyarbakır, with 48 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Diyarbakır ranks 34th of 138 for the warmest May highs and joint 99th of 138 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 138 cities is 22.4°C; Diyarbakır is 2.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 7.2°C to 32.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 63 mm to 8.9 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Bismil in MayTurkey · 40 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 13.4°C · 48 mm rain
- Batman in MayTurkey · 80 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 13.8°C · 57 mm rain
- Siverek in MayTurkey · 81 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 12.0°C · 43 mm rain
- Mardin in MayTurkey · 81 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 10.9°C · 31 mm rain
- Kızıltepe in MayTurkey · 87 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 15.1°C · 28 mm rain
- Viranşehir in MayTurkey · 87 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 29 mm rain
- Bingöl in MayTurkey · 111 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 8.5°C · 117 mm rain
- Midyat in MayTurkey · 113 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 13.0°C · 66 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.