Kahramanmaraş climate

Name: Kahramanmaraş
Address: TR

Kahramanmaraş is warmest in August, with average highs of 35 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -0.4 °C. January is the wettest month (110 mm) and July the driest (1.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kahramanmaraş averages 573 mm of rain, 148 days above 25 °C and 45 days below freezing.

Turkey · population 384,953 · 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 35 °C
Coldest month January -0.4 °C
Driest month July 2 mm
Wettest month January 110 mm
Least cloud August 12 % cloud
Hottest on record August 43 °C
Coldest on record February -19 °C

What to expectKahramanmaraş through the year

Kahramanmaraş has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 7.2 °C in January to 35 °C in August, a swing of 24 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 148 days a year reach 25 °C, 96 of them reach 30 °C, 45 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 110 mm against 2 mm in July — 67 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	7.2 °C	110 mm	56 %
February	8.8 °C	84 mm	55 %
March	13.9 °C	78 mm	51 %
April	19.2 °C	52 mm	50 %
May	24.4 °C	35 mm	39 %
June	30.0 °C	5 mm	21 %
July	34.5 °C	2 mm	12 %
August	34.7 °C	2 mm	12 %
September	30.5 °C	6 mm	16 %
October	24.1 °C	31 mm	32 %
November	15.9 °C	61 mm	42 %
December	9.5 °C	106 mm	55 %

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	7.2 °C	-0.4 °C	3.3 °C	16.6 °C	-13.8 °C	0	0	15
February	8.8 °C	-0.0 °C	4.4 °C	22.5 °C	-19.4 °C	0	0	12
March	13.9 °C	3.8 °C	9.0 °C	25.8 °C	-9.1 °C	0	0	5
April	19.2 °C	8.6 °C	14.0 °C	31.8 °C	-6.2 °C	3	0	0
May	24.4 °C	13.1 °C	18.9 °C	36.2 °C	4.6 °C	14	3	0
June	30.0 °C	17.1 °C	23.6 °C	39.9 °C	8.7 °C	27	15	0
July	34.5 °C	20.4 °C	27.3 °C	41.9 °C	11.6 °C	31	29	0
August	34.7 °C	21.0 °C	27.5 °C	43.0 °C	13.7 °C	31	30	0
September	30.5 °C	17.7 °C	23.9 °C	41.0 °C	6.4 °C	28	17	0
October	24.1 °C	13.0 °C	18.5 °C	33.9 °C	1.9 °C	14	2	0
November	15.9 °C	6.2 °C	11.0 °C	25.2 °C	-10.8 °C	0	0	2
December	9.5 °C	1.6 °C	5.4 °C	24.2 °C	-17.4 °C	0	0	10

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	110 mm	11	9.9 h/day	56 %	76 %	9.4 km/h
February	84 mm	10	11 h/day	55 %	75 %	9.8 km/h
March	78 mm	9	12 h/day	51 %	70 %	11 km/h
April	52 mm	8	13 h/day	50 %	67 %	11 km/h
May	35 mm	5	14 h/day	39 %	64 %	12 km/h
June	5 mm	2	15 h/day	21 %	57 %	14 km/h
July	2 mm	1	15 h/day	12 %	52 %	15 km/h
August	2 mm	1	14 h/day	12 %	53 %	14 km/h
September	6 mm	1	12 h/day	16 %	52 %	12 km/h
October	31 mm	4	11 h/day	32 %	56 %	9.5 km/h
November	61 mm	7	10 h/day	42 %	66 %	8.7 km/h
December	106 mm	10	9.6 h/day	55 %	74 %	9.0 km/h

How Kahramanmaraş 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
Kahramanmaraş	35 °C	-0.4 °C	573 mm	148
Gaziantep · Turkey	35 °C	-0.3 °C	451 mm	151
Osmaniye · Turkey	33 °C	3.3 °C	811 mm	164
Adıyaman · Turkey	37 °C	-1.4 °C	599 mm	153
İskenderun · Turkey	33 °C	7.6 °C	670 mm	169
Malatya · Turkey	33 °C	-3.4 °C	587 mm	131
Aleppo · Syria	36 °C	2.4 °C	300 mm	179

Where Kahramanmaraş ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in May	1st of 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in Asia in October	5th of 50	98/100
Places with the best weather in the world in October	5th of 50	98/100
Places with the best weather in the world in May	27th of 50	96/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kahramanmaraş’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kahramanmaraş?

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

How hot does Kahramanmaraş get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 35 °C. About 96 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -0.4 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 45 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Kahramanmaraş?

January, averaging 110 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is July with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 573 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 Kahramanmaraş 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: 37.585°, 36.926° (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.