Climate averages 1991–2020
Malatya weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Malatya: daytime highs average 22.9°C and nights cool to about 11.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 65 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 14 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Adıyaman (65 km away). In May its highs average 25.2°C, 2.3°C warmer than Malatya, with 32 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Malatya ranks 55th of 138 for the warmest May highs and joint 102nd of 138 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 138 cities is 22.4°C; Malatya is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 6.2°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 65 mm to 17 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
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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Adıyaman in MayTurkey · 65 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 12.5°C · 32 mm rain
- Kâhta in MayTurkey · 68 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 12.2°C · 28 mm rain
- Akçapınar in MayTurkey · 86 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 13.1°C · 56 mm rain
- Elazığ in MayTurkey · 87 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 11.5°C · 69 mm rain
- Elbistan in MayTurkey · 99 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 9.7°C · 43 mm rain
- Siverek in MayTurkey · 110 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 12.0°C · 43 mm rain
- Şanlıurfa in MayTurkey · 138 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 14.9°C · 37 mm rain
- Kahramanmaraş in MayTurkey · 149 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 13.3°C · 31 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.