Sivas climate

Name: Sivas
Address: TR

Sivas is warmest in August, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -7.6 °C. April is the wettest month (61 mm) and August the driest (5.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Sivas averages 434 mm of rain, 70 days above 25 °C and 131 days below freezing.

Turkey · population 264,022 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month January -7.6 °C
Driest month August 6 mm
Wettest month April 61 mm
Least cloud August 20 % cloud
Hottest on record July 39 °C
Coldest on record December -26 °C

What to expectSivas through the year

Sivas has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 0.7 °C in January to 28 °C in August, a swing of 24 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 70 days a year reach 25 °C, 18 of them reach 30 °C, 131 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. April averages 61 mm against 6 mm in August — 11 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	0.7 °C	48 mm	66 %
February	1.8 °C	40 mm	62 %
March	8.0 °C	55 mm	59 %
April	14.4 °C	61 mm	55 %
May	19.1 °C	59 mm	49 %
June	23.1 °C	28 mm	34 %
July	26.9 °C	6 mm	22 %
August	27.7 °C	6 mm	20 %
September	23.9 °C	13 mm	25 %
October	17.9 °C	32 mm	42 %
November	10.1 °C	42 mm	49 %
December	3.7 °C	44 mm	63 %

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	0.7 °C	-7.6 °C	-3.6 °C	12.2 °C	-22.6 °C	0	0	30
February	1.8 °C	-7.1 °C	-2.8 °C	14.8 °C	-25.8 °C	0	0	27
March	8.0 °C	-2.7 °C	2.6 °C	22.3 °C	-23.2 °C	0	0	23
April	14.4 °C	2.1 °C	8.3 °C	26.1 °C	-12.8 °C	0	0	8
May	19.1 °C	6.7 °C	13.0 °C	29.7 °C	-2.4 °C	2	0	0
June	23.1 °C	10.5 °C	16.9 °C	34.4 °C	2.4 °C	9	1	0
July	26.9 °C	13.2 °C	20.0 °C	38.6 °C	5.4 °C	20	7	0
August	27.7 °C	13.8 °C	20.4 °C	37.2 °C	6.1 °C	23	9	0
September	23.9 °C	10.5 °C	16.8 °C	34.9 °C	0.4 °C	13	2	0
October	17.9 °C	6.0 °C	11.6 °C	28.3 °C	-6.5 °C	2	0	1
November	10.1 °C	-0.5 °C	4.3 °C	20.0 °C	-20.1 °C	0	0	16
December	3.7 °C	-4.8 °C	-1.0 °C	18.3 °C	-26.1 °C	0	0	27

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	48 mm	8	9.7 h/day	66 %	79 %	15 km/h
February	40 mm	8	11 h/day	62 %	78 %	16 km/h
March	55 mm	11	12 h/day	59 %	71 %	19 km/h
April	61 mm	12	13 h/day	55 %	65 %	19 km/h
May	59 mm	12	14 h/day	49 %	66 %	17 km/h
June	28 mm	7	15 h/day	34 %	63 %	18 km/h
July	6 mm	2	15 h/day	22 %	59 %	19 km/h
August	6 mm	2	14 h/day	20 %	58 %	19 km/h
September	13 mm	3	12 h/day	25 %	56 %	16 km/h
October	32 mm	6	11 h/day	42 %	63 %	15 km/h
November	42 mm	6	10 h/day	49 %	71 %	15 km/h
December	44 mm	9	9.4 h/day	63 %	77 %	14 km/h

How Sivas 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
Sivas	28 °C	-7.6 °C	434 mm	70
Ordu · Turkey	25 °C	1.9 °C	1,264 mm	42
Kayseri · Turkey	31 °C	-5.7 °C	502 mm	113
Samsun · Turkey	27 °C	2.0 °C	856 mm	62
Malatya · Turkey	33 °C	-3.4 °C	587 mm	131
Çorum · Turkey	29 °C	-3.0 °C	553 mm	95
Erzincan · Turkey	30 °C	-8.1 °C	676 mm	90

Where Sivas ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in July	6th of 50	88/100
Places with the best weather in Asia in June	6th of 50	92/100
Places with the best weather in Asia in September	17th of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in Asia in August	29th of 50	87/100
Places with the best weather in the world in September	37th of 50	95/100
The coolest places in Asia in May	43rd of 50	19 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Sivas’s climate

When is the best time to visit Sivas?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August 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 Sivas get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 18 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 -7.6 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 131 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Sivas?

April, averaging 61 mm over 12 days with rain. The driest month is August with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 434 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 Sivas 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: 39.748°, 37.016° (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.