Climate averages 1991–2020
Konya weather
in January.
A cold, fairly dry month: the coolest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Konya: daytime highs average 5.3°C and nights cool to about -3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 52 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Karaman (100 km away). In January its highs average 5.4°C, about as warm as Konya, with 45 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Konya ranks joint 103rd of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 6th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Konya is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 7.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 39 mm to 29 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
Konya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 5.3°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 39 | 7.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 7.2°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 29 | 6.4 | 10.811 h |
| March | 12.1°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 34 | 7.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.4°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 35 | 8.4 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.6°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 34 | 8.9 | 14.214 h |
| June | 27.0°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 23 | 5.9 | 14.715 h |
| July | 31.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 4.2 | 1.4 | 14.515 h |
| August | 30.8°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 4.2 | 1.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.5°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 6.9 | 1.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.4°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 17 | 3.5 | 11.211 h |
| November | 13.1°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 29 | 4.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 7.3°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 39 | 7.1 | 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
- Karaman in JanuaryTurkey · 100 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -2.9°C · 45 mm rain
- Ereğli (Konya), Turkey in JanuaryTurkey · 143 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -3.5°C · 40 mm rain
- Aksaray in JanuaryTurkey · 146 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low -3.8°C · 42 mm rain
- Manavgat in JanuaryTurkey · 152 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.1°C · 196 mm rain
- Alanya in JanuaryTurkey · 154 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 5.4°C · 179 mm rain
- Belek in JanuaryTurkey · 168 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 6.3°C · 237 mm rain
- Isparta in JanuaryTurkey · 170 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -1.9°C · 110 mm rain
- Muratpaşa in JanuaryTurkey · 187 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 5.5°C · 214 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 Konya) is explained once on the Konya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.