Climate averages 1991–2020

İzmit weather
in August.

A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.2°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 19.8°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 41 mm 6 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in İzmit · average highYear overview

August is a hot month in İzmit: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 19.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 48 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Derince (10 km away). In August its highs average 28.5°C, about as warm as İzmit, with 36 mm of rain.

Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, İzmit ranks 104th of 138 for the warmest August highs and 127th of 138 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 138 cities is 31.1°C; İzmit is 2.9°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 3.3°C to 25.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 41 mm to 61 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

İzmit climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for İzmit, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 8.8°C1.4°C1.4°C10113.99.610 h
February 10.2°C1.8°C1.8°C9013.410.611 h
March 13.2°C3.9°C3.9°C9713.911.912 h
April 17.9°C7.7°C7.7°C7611.713.313 h
May 22.3°C12.4°C12.4°C7310.914.414 h
June 25.9°C16.8°C16.8°C7510.615.015 h
July 28.0°C19.2°C19.2°C436.514.815 h
August, selected 28.2°C19.8°C19.8°C416.413.814 h
September 25.0°C16.5°C16.5°C618.412.513 h
October 20.4°C12.6°C12.6°C9011.011.211 h
November 15.5°C7.3°C7.3°C8010.410.010 h
December 10.5°C3.4°C3.4°C11013.59.39 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

August in nearby cities

Distance from İzmit

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for İzmit) is explained once on the İzmit year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.