Climate and average weather in Çubuk

In Çubuk, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late August to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Çubuk typically varies from -4°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -12°C or above 35°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 Çubuk for warm-weather activities are from late May to mid July and late August to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
30°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
May
55 mm
Driest
Jul
13 mm
Rain / yr
457 mm
88 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
999 m
40.2°N
Clearest
Aug
21% cloud

Çubuk is district of Ankara, Turkey.

Density
46/km²
people per km²

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

Çubuk 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 late August to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from June 5 to September 23, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Çubuk is August, with an average high of 30°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 27 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Çubuk is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 3°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3-4
Feb6-3
Mar100
Apr164
May218
Jun2612
Jul2915
Aug3015
Sep2511
Oct196
Nov111
Dec5-2

How hot and cold Çubuk 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 -8°C (around January 27), with roughly 147 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33-7-4
Feb66-6-3
Mar1010-30
Apr161624
May212178
Jun25261212
Jul29291515
Aug30301515
Sep25251111
Oct191956
Nov1111-11
Dec55-5-2

Average hourly temperature in Çubuk

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

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

Çubuk 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 / -4°5396.49.50.0
Feb / -3°448.45.110.40.4
Mar10° / 539.93.511.72.4
Apr16° / 5010.70.7134.8
May21° / 5511.1014.26.5
Jun26° / 12°398.6014.87.3
Jul29° / 15°133.3014.66.7
Aug30° / 15°133.5013.66.6
Sep25° / 11°153.3012.38.4
Oct19° / 305.80.110.96.8
Nov11° / 395.81.49.83.2
Dec / -2°558.649.20.3

Chance of rain

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

Çubuk gets about 457 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 6.8 months, from around Nov 28 to Jun 22, peaking in April at about 36% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 26.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 55 mm over about 11 wet days; July is the driest, with 13 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 8 · 36%Jul 26 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb308
Mar3310
Apr3511
May3511
Jun299
Jul123
Aug114
Sep113
Oct186
Nov206
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Çubuk collects about 457 mm of rain across 88 wet days — roughly 38 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 55 mm, while July is the driest at just 13 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec534453505539131315303955
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan5396
Feb4485
Mar53104
Apr50111
May55110
Jun3990
Jul1330
Aug1340
Sep1530
Oct3060
Nov3961
Dec5594

Snow in Çubuk

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.

Çubuk averages about 21 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 28 to Apr 17 — about 5.7 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 28 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 108 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 9
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan628
Feb529
Mar418
Apr12
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov17
Dec424

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Çubuk, 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 23 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around October 22. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 94% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 23 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around May 22. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 56% 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 4 · 95%Dec 31 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4456
Feb4456
Mar4654
Apr4951
May6139
Jun7822
Jul937
Aug946
Sep8911
Oct6931
Nov6040
Dec4555

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 17, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 9 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.57:144:40
Feb10.46:505:15
Mar11.76:075:48
Apr13.05:166:20
May14.24:376:51
Jun14.84:237:14
Jul14.64:357:12
Aug13.65:046:40
Sep12.35:345:50
Oct10.96:055:00
Nov9.86:414:25
Dec9.27:104:18

Sunny days

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

Çubuk averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around Jun 11 to Oct 21. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 9 sunny days — about 65% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1825 daysApr 108 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr8Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul24Brilliant
Aug25Brilliant
Sep21Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov13Mixed
Dec9Mixed

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 Çubuk, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, 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
Jun973
Jul919
Aug937
Sep991
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 Çubuk is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJul 22 · 9 km/hNov 25 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Çubuk

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Çubuk is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Çubuk for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to mid July and again from late August to mid October, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 17 · 8.5

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
Feb0.5poor
Mar2.4poor
Apr4.8fair
May6.5good
Jun7.2good
Jul6.7good
Aug6.6good
Sep8.3ideal
Oct6.8good
Nov3.2poor
Dec0.3poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 22 · 8.7

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 Çubuk, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 3°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Çubuk sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Çubuk 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 Çubuk peaks around August 10 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highModerateLowAug 10UV 9Dec 21UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr7High
May7Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct4Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Çubuk

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 August 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
Feb00
Mar30
Apr6.52.5
May7.54
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep6.53.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Çubuk 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 Çubuk is worst in May — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (January, 11 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodModerateGoodMay 1118 µg/m³Jan 1111 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb12Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May19Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul11Good
Aug11Good
Sep12Good
Oct13Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Çubuk typically lasts about 251 days, from around March 19 to November 24 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 22 to October 24.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1950%Apr 2290%Oct 2490%Nov 2450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2031
Feb2628
Mar5031
Apr8523
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct957
Nov6130
Dec3131

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. Çubuk banks about 1,498 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr13
May143
Jun262
Jul375
Aug381
Sep240
Oct83
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.

Çubuk receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.8 and 7.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 23 to Sep 26. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.9 kWh/m² — roughly 74% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 67.4 kWhDec 201.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.2Moderate
Feb3.1Moderate
Mar4.4Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May6.5Intense
Jun7.0Intense
Jul7.3Intense
Aug6.6Intense
Sep5.3Bright
Oct3.7Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec1.9Dim

Where is Çubuk?

Çubuk sits at 40.2°N, 33.0°E, 999 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Akyurt, 12 km away.

Topography around Çubuk

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Çubuk has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 146 m around an average of 1,019 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 803 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,512 m.

The land around Çubuk is covered by cropland (46%), grassland (29%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 3 km, grassland (53%) and cropland (37%) within 16 km, and grassland (55%) and cropland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
146 m
16 km
803 m
80 km
1,512 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Akyurt 12 km · Kazan 30 km · İncirli 33 km · Etlik 34 km · Çankaya 38 km · Ankara 39 km · Elmadağ 39 km · Batikent 40 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 Çubuk (40.2386°, 33.0322°, elevation 999 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).