Climate averages 1991–2020
İskenderun weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in İskenderun: daytime highs average 17.0°C and nights cool to about 9.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 95 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Arsuz (32 km away, marked approximate). In March its highs average 17.2°C, about as warm as İskenderun, with 109 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, İskenderun ranks joint 9th of 138 for the warmest March highs and joint 109th of 138 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 138 cities is 12.5°C; İskenderun is 4.5°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.0°C to 21.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 95 mm to 63 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
İskenderun climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Arsuz (approximate) in MarchTurkey · 32 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 10.9°C · 109 mm rain
- Antakya in MarchTurkey · 42 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 8.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Osmaniye in MarchTurkey · 55 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 6.9°C · 112 mm rain
- Ceyhan in MarchTurkey · 58 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 7.6°C · 113 mm rain
- Samandağ in MarchTurkey · 59 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 9.9°C · 103 mm rain
- Idlib in MarchSyria · 84 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 6.3°C · 40 mm rain
- Kilis in MarchTurkey · 85 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 3.9°C · 47 mm rain
- Adana in MarchTurkey · 88 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 7.3°C · 75 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.