Climate averages 1991–2020
İzmir weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in İzmir: daytime highs average 11.2°C and nights cool to about 3.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 111 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 49 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Karşıyaka (5 km away). In January its highs average 11.7°C, 0.5°C warmer than İzmir, with 98 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, İzmir ranks 23rd of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 114th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; İzmir is 3.7°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 12.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 111 mm to 101 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
İzmir climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 11.2°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 111 | 10.1 | 9.810 h |
| February | 12.6°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 101 | 10.2 | 10.711 h |
| March | 15.7°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 83 | 9.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.1°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 64 | 8.1 | 13.213 h |
| May | 25.7°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 41 | 6.2 | 14.214 h |
| June | 31.4°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 17 | 3.6 | 14.815 h |
| July | 35.2°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 3.3 | 1.0 | 14.615 h |
| August | 35.3°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 4.0 | 1.1 | 13.714 h |
| September | 30.0°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 24 | 3.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.7°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 65 | 5.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 17.4°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 96 | 7.9 | 10.110 h |
| December | 12.4°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 109 | 11.4 | 9.510 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
- Karşıyaka in JanuaryTurkey · 5 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.6°C · 98 mm rain
- Bornova in JanuaryTurkey · 12 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.3°C · 111 mm rain
- Manisa in JanuaryTurkey · 33 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.2°C · 112 mm rain
- Turgutlu in JanuaryTurkey · 50 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 2.3°C · 95 mm rain
- Akhisar in JanuaryTurkey · 83 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Aydın in JanuaryTurkey · 88 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.0°C · 123 mm rain
- Salihli in JanuaryTurkey · 88 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 2.6°C · 85 mm rain
- Soma in JanuaryTurkey · 95 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 97 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 İzmir) is explained once on the İzmir year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Bornova lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.