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Ankara weather by month

Ankara runs from about 3°C in January to 25°C in August, with January the wettest month at 104 mm.

warmest month

August

25°C

coolest month

January

3°C

wettest month

January

104 mm

worst air month

December

40 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Ankara
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January3°C104 mm208 h29
February5°C21 mm241 h21
March7°C44 mm282 h25
April16°C38 mm323 h20
May15°C69 mm360 h14
June24°C18 mm407 h9
July25°C25 mm427 h12
August25°C9 mm408 h11
September21°C30 mm328 h12
October13°C2 mm315 h16
November6°C35 mm224 h30
December3°C69 mm173 h40

About 3,696 hours of sun a year. Roughly 47 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-25. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.