Climate averages 1991–2020
Rize weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Rize: daytime highs average 24.0°C and nights cool to about 20.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 193 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 49 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Batumi (115 km away). In August its highs average 26.1°C, 2.2°C warmer than Rize, with 250 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Rize ranks 138th of 138 for the warmest August highs and 138th of 138 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 138 cities is 31.1°C; Rize is 7.2°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.2°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 193 mm to 236 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Rize climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.1°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 134 | 15.0 | 9.610 h |
| February | 8.2°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 108 | 13.5 | 10.611 h |
| March | 10.5°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 134 | 16.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.5°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 115 | 16.8 | 13.313 h |
| May | 18.4°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 152 | 19.3 | 14.514 h |
| June | 21.5°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 169 | 19.0 | 15.115 h |
| July | 23.5°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 169 | 20.1 | 14.815 h |
| August, selected | 24.0°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 193 | 22.0 | 13.814 h |
| September | 21.8°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 236 | 18.1 | 12.513 h |
| October | 18.9°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 227 | 17.0 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.4°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 157 | 12.6 | 9.910 h |
| December | 10.4°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 132 | 13.3 | 9.39 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
August in nearby cities
- Batumi in AugustGeorgia · 115 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 21.4°C · 250 mm rain
- Erzurum in AugustTurkey · 139 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 12.3°C · 33 mm rain
- Erzincan in AugustTurkey · 167 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 16.5°C · 20 mm rain
- Giresun in AugustTurkey · 180 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 20.2°C · 102 mm rain
- Kars in AugustTurkey · 221 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 12.0°C · 48 mm rain
- Ordu in AugustTurkey · 221 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 19.8°C · 83 mm rain
- Kutaisi in AugustGeorgia · 228 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 19.9°C · 96 mm rain
- Bingöl in AugustTurkey · 238 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 17.7°C · 3.9 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 Rize) is explained once on the Rize year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.