Climate averages 1991–2020
Istanbul weather
in February.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Istanbul: daytime highs average 8.7°C and nights cool to about 4.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 36 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Üsküdar (5 km away). In February its highs average 8.8°C, about as warm as Istanbul, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Istanbul ranks joint 72nd of 138 for the warmest February highs and joint 65th of 138 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 138 cities is 8.8°C; Istanbul is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.1°C to 10.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 70 mm to 72 mm.
The annual picture
February 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
Istanbul climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.2°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 85 | 12.4 | 9.610 h |
| February, selected | 8.7°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 70 | 11.7 | 10.611 h |
| March | 10.8°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 72 | 10.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.9°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 47 | 8.1 | 13.313 h |
| May | 19.8°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 35 | 6.1 | 14.514 h |
| June | 24.7°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 32 | 5.4 | 15.115 h |
| July | 27.5°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 23 | 3.4 | 14.815 h |
| August | 27.8°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 20 | 3.2 | 13.814 h |
| September | 23.9°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 46 | 6.4 | 12.513 h |
| October | 19.1°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 75 | 9.0 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.3°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 72 | 9.6 | 9.910 h |
| December | 10.1°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 99 | 12.8 | 9.39 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
February in nearby cities
- Üsküdar in FebruaryTurkey · 5 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 3.9°C · 70 mm rain
- Şişli in FebruaryTurkey · 6 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 3.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Sultangazi in FebruaryTurkey · 12 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 3.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Ümraniye in FebruaryTurkey · 15 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 3.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Küçükçekmece in FebruaryTurkey · 15 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 4.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Başakşehir in FebruaryTurkey · 17 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 3.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Esenyurt in FebruaryTurkey · 23 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 4.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Sancaktepe in FebruaryTurkey · 24 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 3.7°C · 71 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 Istanbul) is explained once on the Istanbul year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ümraniye, Üsküdar and Şişli lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.