Climate averages 1991–2020

Patnos 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.

Average high 29.5°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 14.5°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 5.7 mm 2 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Patnos · average highYear overview

August is a hot month in Patnos: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 14.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 5.7 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 42 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Erciş (49 km away). In August its highs average 27.4°C, 2.1°C cooler than Patnos, with 6.2 mm of rain.

Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Patnos ranks joint 84th of 138 for the warmest August highs and joint 54th of 138 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 138 cities is 31.1°C; Patnos is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 24.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 5.7 mm to 17 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -15-10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Patnos climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Patnos, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 0.0°C-10.5°C-10.5°C448.29.710 h
February 1.4°C-9.1°C-9.1°C499.410.711 h
March 6.0°C-4.6°C-4.6°C7713.311.912 h
April 12.4°C0.3°C0.3°C10116.913.213 h
May 18.3°C5.0°C5.0°C8916.214.314 h
June 24.1°C9.5°C9.5°C357.714.915 h
July 29.0°C14.1°C14.1°C123.414.615 h
August, selected 29.5°C14.5°C14.5°C5.71.913.714 h
September 24.5°C9.7°C9.7°C173.012.512 h
October 16.9°C4.2°C4.2°C488.111.211 h
November 8.4°C-2.4°C-2.4°C467.110.110 h
December 2.2°C-8.2°C-8.2°C498.29.59 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

Distance from Patnos

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Patnos) is explained once on the Patnos year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.