Climate averages 1991–2020
Malatya weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Malatya: daytime highs average 11.2°C and nights cool to about 1.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Adıyaman (65 km away). In March its highs average 13.7°C, 2.4°C warmer than Malatya, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Malatya ranks joint 95th of 138 for the warmest March highs and joint 77th of 138 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 138 cities is 12.5°C; Malatya is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.1°C to 17.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 75 mm to 74 mm.
The annual picture
March 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 | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Adıyaman in MarchTurkey · 65 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 3.1°C · 70 mm rain
- Kâhta in MarchTurkey · 68 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 2.8°C · 67 mm rain
- Akçapınar in MarchTurkey · 86 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 2.9°C · 73 mm rain
- Elazığ in MarchTurkey · 87 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 1.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Elbistan in MarchTurkey · 99 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -0.5°C · 53 mm rain
- Siverek in MarchTurkey · 110 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 2.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Şanlıurfa in MarchTurkey · 138 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 5.4°C · 65 mm rain
- Kahramanmaraş in MarchTurkey · 149 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 4.1°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 Malatya) is explained once on the Malatya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.