Climate averages 1991–2020
Şanlıurfa weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Şanlıurfa: daytime highs average 9.3°C and nights cool to about 1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 85 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 55 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Suruç (39 km away). In January its highs average 9.9°C, 0.6°C warmer than Şanlıurfa, with 60 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Şanlıurfa ranks joint 40th of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 71st of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Şanlıurfa is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 11.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 85 mm to 73 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Şanlıurfa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.3°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 85 | 10.8 | 9.910 h |
| February | 11.1°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 73 | 10.3 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.9°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 65 | 10.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.7°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 53 | 8.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 28.0°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 37 | 6.7 | 14.114 h |
| June | 34.7°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 5.9 | 1.5 | 14.715 h |
| July | 38.9°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 14.414 h |
| August | 38.6°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 1.2 | 0.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 33.4°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 5.5 | 1.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 26.0°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 41 | 5.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.9°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 55 | 7.1 | 10.210 h |
| December | 11.0°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 79 | 10.1 | 9.710 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
- Suruç in JanuaryTurkey · 39 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 1.7°C · 60 mm rain
- Kâhta in JanuaryTurkey · 70 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -1.5°C · 116 mm rain
- Siverek in JanuaryTurkey · 80 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -1.6°C · 100 mm rain
- Adıyaman in JanuaryTurkey · 81 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -1.2°C · 118 mm rain
- Viranşehir in JanuaryTurkey · 85 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 1.4°C · 72 mm rain
- Nizip in JanuaryTurkey · 90 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Manbij in JanuarySyria · 103 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 1.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Gaziantep in JanuaryTurkey · 126 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 77 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 Şanlıurfa) is explained once on the Şanlıurfa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.