Erzincan climate

Name: Erzincan
Address: TR

Erzincan is warmest in August, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -8.1 °C. May is the wettest month (94 mm) and August the driest (20 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Erzincan averages 676 mm of rain, 90 days above 25 °C and 117 days below freezing.

Turkey · population 150,714 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month August 30 °C
Coldest month January -8.1 °C
Driest month August 20 mm
Wettest month May 94 mm
Least cloud August 24 % cloud
Hottest on record August 39 °C
Coldest on record December -28 °C

What to expectErzincan through the year

Erzincan has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -0.01 °C in January to 30 °C in August, a swing of 27 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 90 days a year reach 25 °C, 33 of them reach 30 °C, 117 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 94 mm against 20 mm in August — 4.8 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-0.0 °C	64 mm	68 %
February	1.8 °C	61 mm	63 %
March	6.4 °C	82 mm	61 %
April	12.4 °C	88 mm	60 %
May	19.8 °C	94 mm	55 %
June	24.6 °C	52 mm	36 %
July	28.7 °C	25 mm	25 %
August	29.5 °C	20 mm	24 %
September	25.6 °C	22 mm	27 %
October	18.7 °C	52 mm	45 %
November	9.0 °C	60 mm	54 %
December	2.1 °C	57 mm	65 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	-0.0 °C	-8.1 °C	-4.0 °C	10.1 °C	-24.5 °C	0	0	30
February	1.8 °C	-6.5 °C	-2.4 °C	13.7 °C	-23.0 °C	0	0	25
March	6.4 °C	-1.8 °C	2.3 °C	20.7 °C	-17.5 °C	0	0	19
April	12.4 °C	3.0 °C	7.8 °C	26.7 °C	-14.3 °C	0	0	5
May	19.8 °C	8.5 °C	14.5 °C	30.6 °C	-0.8 °C	3	0	0
June	24.6 °C	12.7 °C	18.9 °C	35.5 °C	3.2 °C	14	2	0
July	28.7 °C	15.5 °C	22.2 °C	38.2 °C	6.4 °C	24	12	0
August	29.5 °C	16.4 °C	22.9 °C	38.9 °C	6.9 °C	27	14	0
September	25.6 °C	13.6 °C	19.6 °C	35.2 °C	1.8 °C	18	5	0
October	18.7 °C	8.4 °C	13.3 °C	29.0 °C	-12.4 °C	3	0	1
November	9.0 °C	-0.1 °C	4.2 °C	19.4 °C	-21.9 °C	0	0	12
December	2.1 °C	-6.1 °C	-2.0 °C	18.4 °C	-28.3 °C	0	0	26

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	64 mm	9	9.7 h/day	68 %	78 %	7.9 km/h
February	61 mm	9	11 h/day	63 %	75 %	7.9 km/h
March	82 mm	12	12 h/day	61 %	74 %	8.2 km/h
April	88 mm	13	13 h/day	60 %	73 %	8.4 km/h
May	94 mm	16	14 h/day	55 %	67 %	8.5 km/h
June	52 mm	10	15 h/day	36 %	61 %	8.7 km/h
July	25 mm	5	15 h/day	25 %	56 %	9.0 km/h
August	20 mm	4	14 h/day	24 %	53 %	9.0 km/h
September	22 mm	4	12 h/day	27 %	49 %	8.6 km/h
October	52 mm	8	11 h/day	45 %	61 %	7.6 km/h
November	60 mm	7	10 h/day	54 %	71 %	7.3 km/h
December	57 mm	9	9.4 h/day	65 %	78 %	7.6 km/h

How Erzincan compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Erzincan	30 °C	-8.1 °C	676 mm	90
Elazığ · Turkey	33 °C	-3.0 °C	577 mm	123
Trabzon · Turkey	25 °C	2.1 °C	1,678 mm	41
Erzurum · Turkey	25 °C	-12 °C	624 mm	32
Malatya · Turkey	33 °C	-3.4 °C	587 mm	131
Ordu · Turkey	25 °C	1.9 °C	1,264 mm	42
Sivas · Turkey	28 °C	-7.6 °C	434 mm	70

Where Erzincan ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in July	19th of 50	86/100
Places with the best weather in Asia in June	28th of 50	90/100
Places with the best weather in Asia in September	30th of 50	95/100
The coolest places in Asia in April	42nd of 50	12 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Erzincan.

QuestionsCommon questions about Erzincan’s climate

When is the best time to visit Erzincan?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, August is the warmest month and August the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Erzincan get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 33 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -8.1 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 117 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Erzincan?

May, averaging 94 mm over 16 days with rain. The driest month is August with 20 mm. The year as a whole averages 676 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Erzincan rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 39.739°, 39.490° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.