Climate averages 1991–2020
Kâhta weather
in December.
A cool, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Kâhta: daytime highs average 9.1°C and nights cool to about 0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 112 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes December a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 36 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Adıyaman (31 km away). In December its highs average 9.4°C, about as warm as Kâhta, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Kâhta ranks joint 83rd of 138 for the warmest December highs and 115th of 138 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 138 cities is 9.3°C; Kâhta is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.2°C to 6.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 112 mm to 116 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Kâhta climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.9°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 116 | 10.7 | 9.910 h |
| February | 8.4°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 81 | 9.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 13.5°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 67 | 8.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.9°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 47 | 8.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.8°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 28 | 5.0 | 14.214 h |
| June | 31.8°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 3.1 | 1.0 | 14.715 h |
| July | 36.6°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 0.5 | 0.2 | 14.515 h |
| August | 36.4°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 31.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 3.4 | 0.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.8°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 27 | 3.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.2°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 63 | 6.3 | 10.210 h |
| December, selected | 9.1°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 112 | 10.4 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Adıyaman in DecemberTurkey · 31 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 1.2°C · 115 mm rain
- Siverek in DecemberTurkey · 61 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.3°C · 90 mm rain
- Malatya in DecemberTurkey · 68 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -1.2°C · 86 mm rain
- Şanlıurfa in DecemberTurkey · 70 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 3.1°C · 79 mm rain
- Suruç in DecemberTurkey · 92 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.4°C · 56 mm rain
- Elazığ in DecemberTurkey · 112 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low -0.6°C · 71 mm rain
- Nizip in DecemberTurkey · 113 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 2.2°C · 74 mm rain
- Viranşehir in DecemberTurkey · 118 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 3.3°C · 66 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 Kâhta) is explained once on the Kâhta year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.