Climate averages 1991–2020
Viranşehir 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 Viranşehir: daytime highs average 9.6°C and nights cool to about 1.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 72 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 55 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Siverek (71 km away). In January its highs average 7.2°C, 2.4°C cooler than Viranşehir, with 100 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Viranşehir ranks joint 35th of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 55th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Viranşehir is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 11.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 72 mm to 65 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
Viranşehir climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.6°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 72 | 9.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 11.4°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 65 | 9.4 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.9°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 58 | 9.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.5°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 44 | 7.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 27.8°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 29 | 5.7 | 14.114 h |
| June | 34.5°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 3.7 | 1.2 | 14.715 h |
| July | 39.0°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 14.514 h |
| August | 38.7°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 33.6°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 2.8 | 0.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 26.4°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 28 | 4.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 17.4°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 43 | 5.6 | 10.210 h |
| December | 11.4°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 66 | 9.2 | 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
- Siverek in JanuaryTurkey · 71 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -1.6°C · 100 mm rain
- Kızıltepe in JanuaryTurkey · 73 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 68 mm rain
- Şanlıurfa in JanuaryTurkey · 85 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 1.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Diyarbakır in JanuaryTurkey · 87 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -1.3°C · 93 mm rain
- Mardin in JanuaryTurkey · 88 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -2.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Bismil in JanuaryTurkey · 106 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low -0.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Kâhta in JanuaryTurkey · 118 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -1.5°C · 116 mm rain
- Al Ḩasakah in JanuarySyria · 119 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 2.3°C · 50 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 Viranşehir) is explained once on the Viranşehir year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.