Climate averages 1991–2020
İzmir weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in İzmir: daytime highs average 15.7°C and nights cool to about 5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 8th 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 Karşıyaka (5 km away). In March its highs average 16.1°C, about as warm as İzmir, with 73 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, İzmir ranks joint 31st of 138 for the warmest March highs and joint 88th of 138 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 138 cities is 12.5°C; İzmir is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 20.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 83 mm to 64 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
İzmir climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Karşıyaka in MarchTurkey · 5 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 6.0°C · 73 mm rain
- Bornova in MarchTurkey · 12 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 5.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Manisa in MarchTurkey · 33 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 5.5°C · 84 mm rain
- Turgutlu in MarchTurkey · 50 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 5.1°C · 78 mm rain
- Akhisar in MarchTurkey · 83 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 3.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Aydın in MarchTurkey · 88 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 5.9°C · 85 mm rain
- Salihli in MarchTurkey · 88 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 5.5°C · 74 mm rain
- Soma in MarchTurkey · 95 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 4.0°C · 82 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.