Climate averages 1991–2020
Muş weather
in August.
A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Muş: daytime highs average 30.9°C and nights cool to about 17.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 7.1 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes August a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 41 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tatvan (74 km away). In August its highs average 29.0°C, 1.9°C cooler than Muş, with 4.5 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Muş ranks 65th of 138 for the warmest August highs and 67th of 138 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 138 cities is 31.1°C; Muş is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 25.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 7.1 mm to 23 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Muş climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.5°C-6.5°C | -6.5°C | 119 | 11.9 | 9.810 h |
| February | 2.1°C-4.7°C | -4.7°C | 123 | 12.0 | 10.711 h |
| March | 6.4°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 147 | 14.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.1°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 162 | 17.2 | 13.213 h |
| May | 19.0°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 132 | 17.3 | 14.314 h |
| June | 25.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 39 | 7.2 | 14.815 h |
| July | 30.6°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 12 | 3.3 | 14.615 h |
| August, selected | 30.9°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 7.1 | 1.9 | 13.714 h |
| September | 25.7°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 23 | 3.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.2°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 82 | 9.2 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.6°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 93 | 8.3 | 10.110 h |
| December | 2.8°C-4.2°C | -4.2°C | 118 | 10.7 | 9.510 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
August in nearby cities
- Tatvan in AugustTurkey · 74 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 18.0°C · 4.5 mm rain
- Bingöl in AugustTurkey · 88 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 17.7°C · 3.9 mm rain
- Siirt in AugustTurkey · 98 kmHigh 34.7°C · Low 19.3°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Batman in AugustTurkey · 99 kmHigh 38.3°C · Low 23.7°C · 0.8 mm rain
- Bismil in AugustTurkey · 122 kmHigh 38.9°C · Low 22.9°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Patnos in AugustTurkey · 131 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 14.5°C · 5.7 mm rain
- Erzurum in AugustTurkey · 132 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 12.3°C · 33 mm rain
- Diyarbakır in AugustTurkey · 143 kmHigh 37.5°C · Low 22.4°C · 1.3 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 Muş) is explained once on the Muş year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.