Climate and average weather in Adana

In Adana, the summers are muggy, sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: mid March to late May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Adana typically varies from 5°C to 35°C, and is rarely below -1°C or above 38°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Adana for warm-weather activities are from mid March to late May and mid October to late November.

Hottest
Aug
35°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Dec
139 mm
Driest
Aug
6 mm
Rain / yr
693 mm
75 wet days
Daylight
9.5–14.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
30 m
37.0°N
Clearest
Jul
15% cloud

Adana is central district and city in Adana Province, Turkey.

Air quality
Moderate
PM10 42.3 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
131/km²
people per km²
Founded
~6000 BCE

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Adana weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid March to late May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Adana, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from June 3 to October 10, with daily high temperatures above 30°C. The hottest month of the year in Adana is August, with an average high of 35°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from December 1 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 18°C. The coldest month of the year in Adana is January, with an average low of 5°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in October.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan135
Feb156
Mar199
Apr2312
May2816
Jun3221
Jul3424
Aug3524
Sep3321
Oct2816
Nov2110
Dec157

How hot and cold Adana really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Adana feels like about 41°C (around August 7). About 105 days a year carry some heat stress, and 40 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in August.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan131335
Feb151546
Mar191989
Apr23231212
May28281616
Jun33322121
Jul39342424
Aug40352424
Sep34332121
Oct28281616
Nov21211010
Dec151557

Average hourly temperature in Adana

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 35°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Adana weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan13° / 10799.84.1
Feb15° / 818.410.64.9
Mar19° / 759.211.76.4
Apr23° / 12°618.912.97.1
May28° / 16°517.5146.8
Jun32° / 21°164.114.55.1
Jul34° / 24°71.414.33.7
Aug35° / 24°61.613.43.2
Sep33° / 21°193.312.34.5
Oct28° / 16°485.8116.7
Nov21° / 10°835.9107.5
Dec15° / 1399.59.54.8

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Adana gets about 693 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.0 months, from around Nov 19 to May 21, peaking in April at about 32% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 27.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 139 mm over about 10 wet days; August is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetApr 9 · 32%Jul 27 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb308
Mar319
Apr309
May238
Jun134
Jul51
Aug52
Sep113
Oct186
Nov206
Dec3110

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Adana collects about 693 mm of rain across 75 wet days — roughly 58 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 139 mm, while August is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 48% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec107817561511676194883139
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan1079
Feb818
Mar759
Apr619
May518
Jun164
Jul71
Aug62
Sep193
Oct486
Nov836
Dec13910

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Adana, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 17 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 25. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 97% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 26 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 16. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 42% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 1 · 99%Jan 1 · 55%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5941
Feb5941
Mar6436
Apr6436
May7723
Jun937
Jul973
Aug973
Sep973
Oct8218
Nov7030
Dec5842

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 8, brings about 14 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 5 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.86:564:40
Feb10.66:365:11
Mar11.75:575:40
Apr12.95:116:07
May14.04:366:34
Jun14.54:236:55
Jul14.34:356:54
Aug13.45:006:26
Sep12.35:265:40
Oct11.05:534:55
Nov10.06:244:24
Dec9.56:514:19

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Adana averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 13 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around May 24 to Oct 19. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 13 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 728 daysApr 1613 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar15Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May18Bright
Jun24Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug28Brilliant
Sep26Brilliant
Oct21Bright
Nov18Bright
Dec15Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Adana, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around May 11 to October 10. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 11 to May 10, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 4 · 100%Aug 5 · 1%miserablemuggycomfortableoppressivehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar9640000
Apr66295000
May1735341400
Jun472343221
Jul114186313
Aug123185917
Sep1292233222
Oct512022610
Nov9181000
Dec9910000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Adana is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeDec 26 · 9 km/hSep 27 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Adana

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Adana's rainy season runs November–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Adana

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Adana throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late March, Adana is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Adana for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid March to late May and again from mid October to late November, with a peak score in the first week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 6 · 8.0

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.1fair
Feb4.9fair
Mar6.4good
Apr7.1good
May6.8good
Jun5.1fair
Jul3.7fair
Aug3.3poor
Sep4.5fair
Oct6.7good
Nov7.4good
Dec4.9fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Adana for hot-weather activities is from late April to early November, with a peak score in the last week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 30 · 8.2

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Adana, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 35°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 13°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Adana sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Adana

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 44 km away) is warmest in August at about 29°C and coldest in February near 17°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from May 3 to Dec 15 — about 7.5 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan18Cool
Feb17Cool
Mar17Cool
Apr18Cool
May21Refreshing
Jun25Warm
Jul28Warm
Aug29Tropical
Sep28Tropical
Oct26Warm
Nov23Refreshing
Dec20Cool

UV index (midday) in Adana by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Adana peaks around June 22 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 12 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highHighModerateJun 22UV 9Jan 12UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr7Very high
May7Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Adana

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb20
Mar40
Apr6.53
May7.54
Jun85
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep6.53
Oct4.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Adana by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Adana is worst in April — around 23 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 1323 µg/m³Dec 1716 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb19Moderate
Mar22Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov16Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Adana is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 8 to January 15 (342 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 890%Jan 1590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan9022
Feb9311
Mar990
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec960

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Adana banks about 3,509 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb20
Mar115
Apr227
May372
Jun485
Jul594
Aug613
Sep508
Oct377
Nov172
Dec27

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Adana receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 7.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 28. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 70% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 297.4 kWhDec 242.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May6.7Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul7.2Intense
Aug6.5Intense
Sep5.5Bright
Oct4.1Bright
Nov2.9Moderate
Dec2.2Moderate

Where is Adana?

Adana sits at 37.0°N, 35.3°E, 30 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Kireçocağı, 11 km away.

What Adana looks like

Topography around Adana

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Adana.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Adana has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 33 m around an average of 25 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 255 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,484 m.

The land around Adana is covered by artificial surfaces (80%) within 3 km, cropland (41%) and trees (23%) within 16 km, and water (29%), trees (27%) and cropland (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
33 m
16 km
255 m
80 km
3,484 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Kireçocağı 11 km · Tarsus 39 km · İmamoğlu 43 km · Ceyhan 44 km · Mersin 64 km · Kozan 68 km · Erzin 78 km · Kadirli 81 km

Turkey travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 41% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$18,599
2025
Happiness
5.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
3.2
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
6.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 488
Religion
Muslim 100%other 0%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Adana (36.9862°, 35.3253°, elevation 30 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).