Climate averages 1991–2020
Kozan weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Kozan: daytime highs average 25.1°C and nights cool to about 14.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 133 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th 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 Kadirli (26 km away). In May its highs average 25.4°C, about as warm as Kozan, with 63 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Kozan ranks 33rd of 138 for the warmest May highs and 137th of 138 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 138 cities is 22.4°C; Kozan is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 29.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 133 mm to 75 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
Kozan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.4°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 141 | 10.2 | 9.910 h |
| February | 12.8°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 119 | 10.4 | 10.811 h |
| March | 16.4°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 146 | 13.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.5°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 143 | 12.9 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 25.1°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 133 | 12.4 | 14.214 h |
| June | 29.5°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 75 | 10.0 | 14.715 h |
| July | 33.6°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 33 | 6.7 | 14.514 h |
| August | 33.9°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 30 | 7.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 30.6°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 50 | 6.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.5°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 61 | 6.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 18.7°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 97 | 6.7 | 10.210 h |
| December | 13.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 149 | 10.0 | 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
- Kadirli in MayTurkey · 26 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 14.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Ceyhan in MayTurkey · 48 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 16.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Osmaniye in MayTurkey · 57 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 15.6°C · 75 mm rain
- Adana in MayTurkey · 68 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 15.5°C · 51 mm rain
- Kahramanmaraş in MayTurkey · 99 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 13.3°C · 31 mm rain
- Tarsus in MayTurkey · 101 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 15.2°C · 30 mm rain
- İskenderun in MayTurkey · 102 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 17.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Niğde in MayTurkey · 115 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 9.7°C · 73 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 Kozan) is explained once on the Kozan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.