Climate averages 1991–2020
Malatya 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 Malatya: daytime highs average 3.7°C and nights cool to about -3.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 49 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Adıyaman (65 km away). In January its highs average 7.1°C, 3.4°C warmer than Malatya, with 118 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Malatya ranks 119th of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 81st of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Malatya is 3.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 5.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 90 mm to 75 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
Malatya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.7°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 90 | 10.1 | 9.810 h |
| February | 5.5°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 75 | 9.7 | 10.711 h |
| March | 11.2°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 75 | 10.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.3°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 74 | 11.9 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.9°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 65 | 11.4 | 14.214 h |
| June | 29.1°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 17 | 4.5 | 14.815 h |
| July | 33.4°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 3.5 | 1.0 | 14.615 h |
| August | 33.4°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 3.9 | 1.1 | 13.714 h |
| September | 28.4°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 11 | 2.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 21.2°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 45 | 6.9 | 11.211 h |
| November | 12.1°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 60 | 7.7 | 10.110 h |
| December | 5.6°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 86 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Adıyaman in JanuaryTurkey · 65 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -1.2°C · 118 mm rain
- Kâhta in JanuaryTurkey · 68 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -1.5°C · 116 mm rain
- Akçapınar in JanuaryTurkey · 86 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -1.0°C · 72 mm rain
- Elazığ in JanuaryTurkey · 87 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -2.8°C · 74 mm rain
- Elbistan in JanuaryTurkey · 99 kmHigh 1.1°C · Low -5.8°C · 58 mm precipitation
- Siverek in JanuaryTurkey · 110 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -1.6°C · 100 mm rain
- Şanlıurfa in JanuaryTurkey · 138 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Kahramanmaraş in JanuaryTurkey · 149 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -0.4°C · 109 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 Malatya) is explained once on the Malatya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.