Climate averages 1991–2020
Gölbaşı weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Gölbaşı: daytime highs average 4.7°C and nights cool to about -3.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 51 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 42 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ankara (15 km away). In January its highs average 5.3°C, 0.6°C warmer than Gölbaşı, with 51 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Gölbaşı ranks joint 111th of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 24th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Gölbaşı is 2.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.1°C to 6.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 51 mm to 45 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
Gölbaşı climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 4.7°C-3.1°C | -3.1°C | 51 | 8.7 | 9.710 h |
| February | 6.8°C-2.3°C | -2.3°C | 45 | 8.8 | 10.711 h |
| March | 11.1°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 54 | 9.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.4°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 48 | 10.1 | 13.213 h |
| May | 21.7°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 47 | 9.2 | 14.314 h |
| June | 26.1°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 32 | 6.5 | 14.915 h |
| July | 30.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 8.3 | 2.1 | 14.715 h |
| August | 30.4°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 10 | 2.5 | 13.714 h |
| September | 25.7°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 13 | 2.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 19.5°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 28 | 5.4 | 11.211 h |
| November | 12.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 40 | 6.1 | 10.010 h |
| December | 6.7°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 52 | 9.1 | 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
- Ankara in JanuaryTurkey · 15 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -2.5°C · 51 mm rain
- Kırıkkale in JanuaryTurkey · 60 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low -2.2°C · 45 mm rain
- Polatlı in JanuaryTurkey · 62 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -3.6°C · 43 mm rain
- Çankırı in JanuaryTurkey · 113 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -2.9°C · 44 mm rain
- Kırşehir in JanuaryTurkey · 137 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -3.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Bolu in JanuaryTurkey · 147 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low -2.9°C · 91 mm rain
- Karabük in JanuaryTurkey · 158 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -1.1°C · 76 mm rain
- Yozgat in JanuaryTurkey · 170 kmHigh 2.7°C · Low -5.6°C · 51 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 Gölbaşı) is explained once on the Gölbaşı year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.