Climate averages 1991–2020
Suruç 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 Suruç: daytime highs average 9.9°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 60 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 56 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Şanlıurfa (39 km away). In January its highs average 9.3°C, 0.6°C cooler than Suruç, with 85 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Suruç ranks joint 31st of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 35th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Suruç is 2.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 11.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 60 mm to 51 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
Suruç climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Şanlıurfa in JanuaryTurkey · 39 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Nizip in JanuaryTurkey · 56 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Manbij in JanuarySyria · 65 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 1.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Adıyaman in JanuaryTurkey · 89 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -1.2°C · 118 mm rain
- Kâhta in JanuaryTurkey · 92 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -1.5°C · 116 mm rain
- Gaziantep in JanuaryTurkey · 93 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 77 mm rain
- Al Bāb in JanuarySyria · 105 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.3°C · 49 mm rain
- Siverek in JanuaryTurkey · 117 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -1.6°C · 100 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.