Climate averages 1991–2020
İskenderun weather
in January.
A cool, 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 İskenderun: daytime highs average 12.4°C and nights cool to about 6.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 106 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 58 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Arsuz (32 km away, marked approximate). In January its highs average 13.2°C, 0.8°C warmer than İskenderun, with 130 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, İskenderun ranks joint 10th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 106th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; İskenderun is 5.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 13.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 106 mm to 108 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
İskenderun climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.4°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 106 | 11.9 | 10.010 h |
| February | 13.7°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 108 | 10.8 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.0°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 95 | 11.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 63 | 9.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 25.2°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 37 | 6.2 | 14.114 h |
| June | 29.1°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 9.7 | 2.8 | 14.615 h |
| July | 32.0°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 2.8 | 0.8 | 14.414 h |
| August | 32.6°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 2.1 | 0.6 | 13.614 h |
| September | 30.3°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 22 | 3.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.1°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 50 | 6.4 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.4°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 65 | 7.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 14.2°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 103 | 10.5 | 9.710 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
- Arsuz (approximate) in JanuaryTurkey · 32 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 130 mm rain
- Antakya in JanuaryTurkey · 42 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 5.2°C · 107 mm rain
- Osmaniye in JanuaryTurkey · 55 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.3°C · 107 mm rain
- Ceyhan in JanuaryTurkey · 58 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 127 mm rain
- Samandağ in JanuaryTurkey · 59 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 7.0°C · 131 mm rain
- Idlib in JanuarySyria · 84 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 2.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Kilis in JanuaryTurkey · 85 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 69 mm rain
- Adana in JanuaryTurkey · 88 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.1°C · 107 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 İskenderun) is explained once on the İskenderun year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.