Climate and average weather in Ağrı

In Ağrı, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid June to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ağrı typically varies from -12°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -20°C or above 32°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ağrı for warm-weather activities is from mid June to early October.

Hottest
Aug
27°
Coldest
Jan
-12°
Wettest
Apr
89 mm
Driest
Sep
18 mm
Rain / yr
558 mm
112 wet days
Daylight
9.2–14.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,622 m
39.7°N
Clearest
Aug
24% cloud

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

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

Ağrı 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 June to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from June 2 to September 26, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Ağrı is August, with an average high of 27°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 28 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 4°C. The coldest month of the year in Ağrı is January, with an average low of -12°C and high of -1°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-1-12
Feb1-10
Mar6-4
Apr121
May175
Jun239
Jul2712
Aug2712
Sep238
Oct163
Nov7-3
Dec1-9

How hot and cold Ağrı 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 coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -16°C (around January 20), with roughly 183 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 85 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-1-1-16-12
Feb11-14-10
Mar66-8-4
Apr1212-21
May171745
Jun232389
Jul27271212
Aug27271212
Sep232378
Oct161613
Nov77-5-3
Dec11-12-9

Average hourly temperature in Ağrı

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -12°C.

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

Ağrı weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan-1° / -12°398.29.19.50.0
Feb / -10°448.99.610.40.0
Mar / -4°6812.89.311.70.4
Apr12° / 8916.44.1132.7
May17° / 7815.60.314.24.9
Jun23° / 4710.4014.87.1
Jul27° / 12°347.9014.57.5
Aug27° / 12°195.7013.67.8
Sep23° / 183.8012.38.3
Oct16° / 397.50.610.95.5
Nov / -3°416.84.39.81.2
Dec / -9°428.18.49.20.0

Chance of rain

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

Ağrı gets about 558 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.0 months, from around Jan 30 to Jun 29, peaking in May at about 58% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 10.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 89 mm over about 16 wet days; September is the driest, with 18 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 1 · 58%Sep 10 · 11%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb329
Mar4213
Apr5416
May5016
Jun3410
Jul258
Aug196
Sep144
Oct238
Nov247
Dec278

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ağrı collects about 558 mm of rain across 112 wet days — roughly 46 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 89 mm, while September is the driest at just 18 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec394468897847341918394142
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3989
Feb44910
Mar68139
Apr89164
May78160
Jun47100
Jul3480
Aug1960
Sep1840
Oct3981
Nov4174
Dec4288

Snow in Ağrı

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Ağrı averages about 46 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 18 to May 10 — about 6.7 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 10 days of snow and an estimated 47 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 205 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 3
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan933
Feb1047
Mar947
Apr417
May01
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct11
Nov419
Dec840

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ağrı, 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 29 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around October 21. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 98% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 22 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around May 28. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 58% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 11 · 98%Mar 29 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4852
Feb4654
Mar4456
Apr4258
May5347
Jun8218
Jul955
Aug982
Sep919
Oct7030
Nov5743
Dec4951

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 11, brings about 14 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.56:334:02
Feb10.46:094:36
Mar11.75:275:08
Apr13.04:375:39
May14.23:596:09
Jun14.83:446:32
Jul14.53:576:30
Aug13.64:255:59
Sep12.34:545:10
Oct10.95:254:21
Nov9.86:003:46
Dec9.26:283:40

Sunny days

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

Ağrı averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around Jun 8 to Oct 19. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is May, down near 8 sunny days — about 66% fewer than the September peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 325 daysMay 36 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar8Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun16Bright
Jul24Brilliant
Aug26Brilliant
Sep23Brilliant
Oct15Bright
Nov12Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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 Ağrı, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in June, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul937
Aug973
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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 Ağrı is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 14 · 8 km/hDec 11 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Ağrı

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late June, Ağrı 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 time of year to visit Ağrı for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to early October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 10 · 8.7

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
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.5poor
Apr2.6poor
May4.9fair
Jun7.1good
Jul7.5ideal
Aug7.8ideal
Sep8.3ideal
Oct5.5good
Nov1.3poor
Dec0.0poor

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 Ağrı for hot-weather activities is from late June to mid September, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 8 · 8.0

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 Ağrı, 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 27°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -1°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Ağrı sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 12°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ağrı 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 Ağrı peaks around June 21 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 2 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highModerateJun 21UV 11Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr7High
May9Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Ağrı

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 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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
Feb30
Mar4.50
Apr6.52
May85
Jun96.5
Jul96.5
Aug8.56
Sep74
Oct4.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Ağrı 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 Ağrı is worst in May — around 23 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (January, 12 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 1123 µg/m³Jan 1112 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb15Moderate
Mar19Moderate
Apr22Moderate
May23Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov14Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Ağrı typically lasts about 206 days, from around April 10 to November 1 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 4 to October 13.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 310%Apr 1050%May 490%Oct 1390%Nov 150%Dec 810%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan331
Feb528
Mar1831
Apr6130
May973
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8322
Nov2530
Dec931

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. Ağrı banks about 981 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02505007501,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May42
Jun172
Jul290
Aug299
Sep162
Oct16
Nov0
Dec0

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.

Ağrı receives about 4.8 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 6.2 months, from around Mar 23 to Sep 27. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

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

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 287.4 kWhDec 172.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar4.6Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May6.4Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul7.2Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.5Bright
Oct3.9Moderate
Nov2.7Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Ağrı?

Ağrı sits at 39.7°N, 43.0°E, 1,622 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Kağızman, 50 km away.

Topography around Ağrı

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ağrı has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 71 m around an average of 1,633 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 686 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,622 m.

The land around Ağrı is covered by cropland (32%), artificial surfaces (25%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, cropland (66%) and grassland (29%) within 16 km, and grassland (74%) and cropland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
71 m
16 km
686 m
80 km
2,622 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Kağızman 50 km · Patnos 57 km · Diyadin 57 km · Malazgirt 77 km · Sarıkamış 78 km · Erciş 81 km · Horasan 83 km · Iğdır 89 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 Ağrı (39.7147°, 43.0401°, elevation 1,622 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. 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).