Climate averages 1991–2020
Sancaktepe weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Sancaktepe: daytime highs average 11.0°C and nights cool to about 5.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sultanbeyli (6 km away). In March its highs average 11.0°C, about as warm as Sancaktepe, with 73 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Sancaktepe ranks joint 99th of 138 for the warmest March highs and joint 68th of 138 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 138 cities is 12.5°C; Sancaktepe is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 4.2°C to 15.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 73 mm to 48 mm.
The annual picture
March 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
Sancaktepe climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.0°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 87 | 12.6 | 9.610 h |
| February | 8.6°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 71 | 12.1 | 10.611 h |
| March, selected | 11.0°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 73 | 10.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 48 | 8.0 | 13.313 h |
| May | 20.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 35 | 6.1 | 14.514 h |
| June | 24.7°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 35 | 6.1 | 15.115 h |
| July | 27.2°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 25 | 3.7 | 14.815 h |
| August | 27.5°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 24 | 3.7 | 13.814 h |
| September | 23.7°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 48 | 6.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 19.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 75 | 9.2 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 73 | 9.9 | 9.910 h |
| December | 9.8°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 100 | 13.0 | 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
March in nearby cities
- Sultanbeyli in MarchTurkey · 6 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.7°C · 73 mm rain
- Ümraniye in MarchTurkey · 9 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 5.0°C · 72 mm rain
- Üsküdar in MarchTurkey · 18 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 5.4°C · 72 mm rain
- Şişli in MarchTurkey · 22 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 4.9°C · 72 mm rain
- Istanbul in MarchTurkey · 24 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 5.6°C · 72 mm rain
- Gebze in MarchTurkey · 28 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.8°C · 75 mm rain
- Sultangazi in MarchTurkey · 33 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 4.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Küçükçekmece in MarchTurkey · 39 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 5.5°C · 63 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 Sancaktepe) is explained once on the Sancaktepe year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sultanbeyli lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.