Climate averages 1991–2020
Tarsus weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Tarsus: daytime highs average 12.4°C and nights cool to about 4.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 56 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mersin (25 km away). In January its highs average 12.2°C, about as warm as Tarsus, with 99 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Tarsus ranks joint 10th of 138 for the warmest January highs and 80th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Tarsus is 5.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 13.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 89 mm to 64 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
Tarsus climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.4°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 89 | 8.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 13.8°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 64 | 7.9 | 10.811 h |
| March | 16.9°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 57 | 8.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.6°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 38 | 7.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 24.9°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 30 | 6.0 | 14.114 h |
| June | 28.7°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 9.5 | 2.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 31.5°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 5.7 | 1.3 | 14.414 h |
| August | 32.1°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 5.7 | 1.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 30.0°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 11 | 2.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 26.1°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 27 | 3.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.5°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 65 | 5.2 | 10.210 h |
| December | 14.1°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 117 | 8.8 | 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
- Mersin in JanuaryTurkey · 25 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 4.8°C · 99 mm rain
- Adana in JanuaryTurkey · 39 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.1°C · 107 mm rain
- Ceyhan in JanuaryTurkey · 83 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 127 mm rain
- Ereğli (Konya), Turkey in JanuaryTurkey · 100 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -3.5°C · 40 mm rain
- Kozan in JanuaryTurkey · 101 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 2.7°C · 141 mm rain
- Silifke in JanuaryTurkey · 104 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 7.1°C · 97 mm rain
- Arsuz (approximate) in JanuaryTurkey · 105 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 130 mm rain
- Niğde in JanuaryTurkey · 118 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -3.9°C · 46 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 Tarsus) is explained once on the Tarsus year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.