Climate averages 1991–2020
Kahramanmaraş weather
in May.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Kahramanmaraş: daytime highs average 24.3°C and nights cool to about 13.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 31 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 10 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gaziantep (71 km away). In May its highs average 24.9°C, 0.6°C warmer than Kahramanmaraş, with 29 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Kahramanmaraş ranks joint 43rd of 138 for the warmest May highs and joint 17th of 138 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 138 cities is 22.4°C; Kahramanmaraş is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.6°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 31 mm to 5.3 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Gaziantep in MayTurkey · 71 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 12.1°C · 29 mm rain
- Elbistan in MayTurkey · 73 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 9.7°C · 43 mm rain
- Kadirli in MayTurkey · 77 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 14.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Osmaniye in MayTurkey · 83 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 15.6°C · 75 mm rain
- Kilis in MayTurkey · 98 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 12.5°C · 18 mm rain
- Kozan in MayTurkey · 99 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 14.5°C · 133 mm rain
- Nizip in MayTurkey · 100 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 14.0°C · 22 mm rain
- Ceyhan in MayTurkey · 116 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 16.3°C · 76 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.