Climate averages 1991–2020
Kahramanmaraş weather
in January.
A cold, wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Kahramanmaraş: daytime highs average 7.0°C and nights cool to about -0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 109 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 53 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gaziantep (71 km away). In January its highs average 7.5°C, 0.5°C warmer than Kahramanmaraş, with 77 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Kahramanmaraş ranks joint 87th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 111th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Kahramanmaraş is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 8.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 109 mm to 83 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
Kahramanmaraş climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 109 | 10.8 | 9.910 h |
| February | 8.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 83 | 9.6 | 10.811 h |
| March | 13.8°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 73 | 9.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.1°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 49 | 8.2 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 31 | 5.5 | 14.214 h |
| June | 29.9°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 5.3 | 1.9 | 14.715 h |
| July | 34.4°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 1.7 | 0.7 | 14.514 h |
| August | 34.6°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 2.2 | 0.8 | 13.614 h |
| September | 30.4°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 6.3 | 1.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 24.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 29 | 4.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.8°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 59 | 6.7 | 10.210 h |
| December | 9.4°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 105 | 10.1 | 9.610 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
- Gaziantep in JanuaryTurkey · 71 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 77 mm rain
- Elbistan in JanuaryTurkey · 73 kmHigh 1.1°C · Low -5.8°C · 58 mm precipitation
- Kadirli in JanuaryTurkey · 77 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 2.5°C · 91 mm rain
- Osmaniye in JanuaryTurkey · 83 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.3°C · 107 mm rain
- Kilis in JanuaryTurkey · 98 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 69 mm rain
- Kozan in JanuaryTurkey · 99 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 2.7°C · 141 mm rain
- Nizip in JanuaryTurkey · 100 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Ceyhan in JanuaryTurkey · 116 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 127 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 Kahramanmaraş) is explained once on the Kahramanmaraş year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.