Climate averages 1991–2020

Samsun weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 8.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 82 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Samsun: daytime highs average 8.6°C and nights cool to about 2.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 34 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bafra (48 km away). In January its highs average 8.8°C, about as warm as Samsun, with 68 mm of rain.

Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Samsun ranks 55th of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 67th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Samsun is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 9.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 82 mm to 73 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Samsun climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Samsun, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	8.6°C2.2°C	2.2°C	82	13.3	9.610 h
February	9.1°C1.9°C	1.9°C	73	12.0	10.611 h
March	11.5°C3.8°C	3.8°C	92	14.6	11.912 h
April	15.0°C6.9°C	6.9°C	79	12.9	13.313 h
May	19.1°C11.5°C	11.5°C	79	12.9	14.514 h
June	23.1°C15.9°C	15.9°C	60	9.9	15.115 h
July	25.7°C18.6°C	18.6°C	36	7.1	14.815 h
August	26.4°C19.4°C	19.4°C	35	7.3	13.814 h
September	23.1°C16.3°C	16.3°C	65	9.9	12.513 h
October	19.3°C12.7°C	12.7°C	89	11.5	11.111 h
November	14.7°C7.8°C	7.8°C	81	9.9	9.910 h
December	10.5°C4.3°C	4.3°C	92	12.3	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Samsun

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