Climate averages 1991–2020
Sancaktepe weather
in May.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 5th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Sancaktepe: daytime highs average 20.1°C and nights cool to about 13.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 27 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sultanbeyli (6 km away). In May its highs average 20.2°C, about as warm as Sancaktepe, with 35 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Sancaktepe ranks joint 104th of 138 for the warmest May highs and joint 27th of 138 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 138 cities is 22.4°C; Sancaktepe is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 35 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Sultanbeyli in MayTurkey · 6 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 12.8°C · 35 mm rain
- Ümraniye in MayTurkey · 9 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 13.0°C · 35 mm rain
- Üsküdar in MayTurkey · 18 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 13.4°C · 35 mm rain
- Şişli in MayTurkey · 22 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 13.0°C · 35 mm rain
- Istanbul in MayTurkey · 24 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 13.6°C · 35 mm rain
- Gebze in MayTurkey · 28 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 12.0°C · 44 mm rain
- Sultangazi in MayTurkey · 33 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 12.8°C · 29 mm rain
- Küçükçekmece in MayTurkey · 39 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 13.6°C · 29 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.