Climate averages 1991–2020

Rize weather
in July.

A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 23.5°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 19.2°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 169 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Rize · average highYear overview

July is a warm month in Rize: daytime highs average 23.5°C and nights cool to about 19.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 169 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes July a wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 49 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Batumi (115 km away). In July its highs average 25.6°C, 2.1°C warmer than Rize, with 209 mm of rain.

Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Rize ranks 138th of 138 for the warmest July highs and 138th of 138 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 138 cities is 30.9°C; Rize is 7.4°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 169 mm to 193 mm.

The annual picture

July 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. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

Averages 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

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Rize, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 8.1°C1.9°C1.9°C13415.09.610 h
February 8.2°C1.7°C1.7°C10813.510.611 h
March 10.5°C3.8°C3.8°C13416.211.912 h
April 14.5°C7.4°C7.4°C11516.813.313 h
May 18.4°C12.1°C12.1°C15219.314.514 h
June 21.5°C16.3°C16.3°C16919.015.115 h
July, selected 23.5°C19.2°C19.2°C16920.114.815 h
August 24.0°C20.0°C20.0°C19322.013.814 h
September 21.8°C16.9°C16.9°C23618.112.513 h
October 18.9°C13.1°C13.1°C22717.011.111 h
November 14.4°C7.8°C7.8°C15712.69.910 h
December 10.4°C3.9°C3.9°C13213.39.39 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Rize

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 Rize) is explained once on the Rize year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.