Climate averages 1991–2020
Suruç weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Suruç: daytime highs average 11.5°C and nights cool to about 3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 56 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 41 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Şanlıurfa (39 km away). In December its highs average 11.0°C, about as warm as Suruç, with 79 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Suruç ranks joint 31st of 138 for the warmest December highs and 29th of 138 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 138 cities is 9.3°C; Suruç is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 9.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 56 mm to 60 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Suruç climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.9°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 60 | 9.7 | 9.910 h |
| February | 11.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 51 | 8.9 | 10.811 h |
| March | 16.6°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 46 | 8.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.5°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 32 | 6.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 28.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 22 | 4.9 | 14.114 h |
| June | 34.9°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 3.3 | 0.9 | 14.715 h |
| July | 39.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 0.3 | 0.0 | 14.414 h |
| August | 38.9°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 0.5 | 0.2 | 13.614 h |
| September | 33.8°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 3.2 | 0.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 26.8°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 25 | 4.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 17.6°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 38 | 5.4 | 10.210 h |
| December, selected | 11.5°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 56 | 8.7 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Şanlıurfa in DecemberTurkey · 39 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 3.1°C · 79 mm rain
- Nizip in DecemberTurkey · 56 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 2.2°C · 74 mm rain
- Manbij in DecemberSyria · 65 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 3.5°C · 49 mm rain
- Adıyaman in DecemberTurkey · 89 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 1.2°C · 115 mm rain
- Kâhta in DecemberTurkey · 92 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.8°C · 112 mm rain
- Gaziantep in DecemberTurkey · 93 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.5°C · 79 mm rain
- Al Bāb in DecemberSyria · 105 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Siverek in DecemberTurkey · 117 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.3°C · 90 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 Suruç) is explained once on the Suruç year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.