Climate averages 1991–2020
Mersin weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Mersin: daytime highs average 12.2°C and nights cool to about 4.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 99 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 57 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tarsus (25 km away). In January its highs average 12.4°C, about as warm as Mersin, with 89 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Mersin ranks joint 14th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 100th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Mersin is 4.8°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 13.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 99 mm to 62 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
Mersin climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.2°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 99 | 9.5 | 9.910 h |
| February | 13.4°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 62 | 7.8 | 10.811 h |
| March | 16.6°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 47 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.3°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 29 | 5.2 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 21 | 3.6 | 14.114 h |
| June | 28.0°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 4.7 | 1.5 | 14.615 h |
| July | 30.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 2.0 | 0.4 | 14.414 h |
| August | 31.4°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 3.3 | 0.9 | 13.614 h |
| September | 29.0°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 11 | 2.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.2°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 30 | 3.8 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.1°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 70 | 5.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 14.0°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 126 | 9.2 | 9.710 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
- Tarsus in JanuaryTurkey · 25 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.6°C · 89 mm rain
- Adana in JanuaryTurkey · 64 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.1°C · 107 mm rain
- Silifke in JanuaryTurkey · 79 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 7.1°C · 97 mm rain
- Ereğli (Konya), Turkey in JanuaryTurkey · 94 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -3.5°C · 40 mm rain
- Ceyhan in JanuaryTurkey · 107 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 127 mm rain
- Arsuz (approximate) in JanuaryTurkey · 120 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 130 mm rain
- Kozan in JanuaryTurkey · 126 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 2.7°C · 141 mm rain
- Niğde in JanuaryTurkey · 128 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -3.9°C · 46 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 Mersin) is explained once on the Mersin year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.