Climate averages 1991–2020
Midyat weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Midyat: daytime highs average 6.8°C and nights cool to about -1.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 88 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 54 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Al Qāmishlī (42 km away). In January its highs average 10.2°C, 3.4°C warmer than Midyat, with 72 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Midyat ranks joint 90th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 79th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Midyat is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 8.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 88 mm to 89 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
Midyat climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.8°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 88 | 12.0 | 9.910 h |
| February | 8.8°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 89 | 11.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 13.4°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 106 | 13.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.9°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 98 | 12.7 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.9°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 66 | 10.0 | 14.214 h |
| June | 32.2°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 8.9 | 2.8 | 14.715 h |
| July | 37.1°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 2.0 | 0.8 | 14.514 h |
| August | 36.8°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 1.4 | 0.6 | 13.614 h |
| September | 31.6°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 6.6 | 1.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 24.1°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 49 | 6.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.9°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 66 | 8.0 | 10.210 h |
| December | 8.7°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 83 | 10.4 | 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
- Al Qāmishlī in JanuarySyria · 42 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.9°C · 72 mm rain
- Mardin in JanuaryTurkey · 54 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -2.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Batman in JanuaryTurkey · 55 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low -0.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Kızıltepe in JanuaryTurkey · 72 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 68 mm rain
- Cizre in JanuaryTurkey · 75 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low -0.4°C · 107 mm rain
- Bismil in JanuaryTurkey · 76 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Siirt in JanuaryTurkey · 78 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -3.9°C · 112 mm rain
- Silopi in JanuaryTurkey · 101 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low -1.5°C · 105 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 Midyat) is explained once on the Midyat year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.