Climate and average weather in Gemerek

In Gemerek, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid June to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gemerek typically varies from -7°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -16°C or above 33°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 Gemerek for warm-weather activities is from mid June to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Jan
-7°
Wettest
May
66 mm
Driest
Aug
6 mm
Rain / yr
455 mm
91 wet days
Daylight
9.2–14.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,208 m
39.2°N
Clearest
Aug
16% cloud

Gemerek is district of Sivas, Turkey.

Density
15/km²
people per km²

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

Gemerek 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 mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from June 3 to September 28, with daily high temperatures above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Gemerek is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 13°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from December 3 to March 2, with daily high temperatures below 6°C. The coldest month of the year in Gemerek is January, with an average low of -7°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)
Jan1-7
Feb3-6
Mar8-2
Apr143
May197
Jun2410
Jul2813
Aug2813
Sep2410
Oct185
Nov100
Dec4-4

How hot and cold Gemerek 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 -12°C (around January 26), with roughly 168 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 40 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan11-11-7
Feb33-10-6
Mar88-5-2
Apr141403
May191957
Jun24241010
Jul27281313
Aug28281313
Sep2424910
Oct181835
Nov1010-30
Dec44-8-4

Average hourly temperature in Gemerek

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -7°C.

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

Gemerek 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 / -7°458.37.79.60.0
Feb / -6°408.67.310.50.0
Mar / -2°5911.46.311.71.5
Apr14° / 6212.51.9133.9
May19° / 6613.80.114.15.8
Jun24° / 10°388.8014.77.5
Jul28° / 13°92.1014.58.1
Aug28° / 13°61.6013.57.9
Sep24° / 10°163.4012.38.5
Oct18° / 316.20.4116.6
Nov10° / -1°3862.39.92.8
Dec / -5°448.66.99.30.1

Chance of rain

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

Gemerek gets about 455 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 5.0 months, from around Jan 21 to Jun 20, peaking in May at about 46% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 3.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 66 mm over about 14 wet days; August is the driest, with 6 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 1 · 46%Aug 3 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb319
Mar3711
Apr4213
May4314
Jun299
Jul82
Aug52
Sep113
Oct196
Nov216
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gemerek collects about 455 mm of rain across 91 wet days — roughly 38 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 66 mm, while August is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4540596266389616313844
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4588
Feb4097
Mar59116
Apr62132
May66140
Jun3890
Jul920
Aug620
Sep1630
Oct3160
Nov3862
Dec4497

Snow in Gemerek

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.

Gemerek averages about 33 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 20 to May 4 — about 6.5 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 39 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 154 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 3
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan831
Feb739
Mar633
Apr28
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov211
Dec731

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gemerek, 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 25 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around October 20. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 96% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 21 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around May 24. The cloudiest month is March, 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 29 · 96%Jan 1 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4456
Feb4456
Mar4456
Apr4852
May6139
Jun8020
Jul928
Aug964
Sep8911
Oct6931
Nov6040
Dec4654

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 19, brings about 14 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, 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)
Jan9.66:594:31
Feb10.56:365:04
Mar11.75:555:36
Apr13.05:056:07
May14.14:286:36
Jun14.74:146:58
Jul14.54:266:56
Aug13.54:536:26
Sep12.35:225:38
Oct11.05:524:49
Nov9.96:264:15
Dec9.36:544:10

Sunny days

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

Gemerek averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around Jun 9 to Oct 21. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 8 sunny days — about 71% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 727 daysApr 197 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar8Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May11Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul25Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep23Bright
Oct17Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec10Mixed

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 Gemerek, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun982
Jul946
Aug955
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 Gemerek is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJul 22 · 10 km/hJan 11 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar10calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Best time to visit Gemerek

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 11 · 8.8

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
Feb0.1poor
Mar1.5poor
Apr3.9fair
May5.8good
Jun7.5good
Jul8.0ideal
Aug8.0ideal
Sep8.5ideal
Oct6.5good
Nov2.8poor
Dec0.2poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 9.2

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 Gemerek, 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 28°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, Gemerek sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 13°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Gemerek 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 Gemerek peaks around June 23 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 2 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highModerateJun 23UV 10Jan 1UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr8Very high
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Gemerek

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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
Apr74
May84.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Gemerek 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 Gemerek is worst in May — around 21 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (January, 11 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateMay 1421 µg/m³Jan 1111 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb15Moderate
Mar18Moderate
Apr20Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul12Good
Aug12Good
Sep13Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Gemerek typically lasts about 227 days, from around March 30 to November 11 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 28 to October 21.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonJan 2910%Mar 3050%Apr 2890%Oct 2190%Nov 1150%Jan 1410%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1131
Feb1528
Mar3431
Apr7628
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9111
Nov4630
Dec2031

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. Gemerek banks about 1,215 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May89
Jun208
Jul321
Aug333
Sep206
Oct57
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.

Gemerek receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 25. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 71% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 67.6 kWhDec 182.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.6Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.5Intense
Jun7.2Intense
Jul7.5Intense
Aug6.9Intense
Sep5.5Bright
Oct3.9Moderate
Nov2.7Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Gemerek?

Gemerek sits at 39.2°N, 36.1°E, 1,208 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Şarkışla, 35 km away.

DeveliSivasSorgun

Topography around Gemerek

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gemerek has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 331 m around an average of 1,228 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 708 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,775 m.

The land around Gemerek is covered by cropland (63%) and grassland (28%) within 3 km, cropland (57%) and grassland (37%) within 16 km, and grassland (45%) and cropland (45%) within 80 km.

3 km
331 m
16 km
708 m
80 km
1,775 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Şarkışla 35 km · Akdağmadeni 55 km · Talas 71 km · Kayseri 71 km · Hacılar 80 km · Develi 101 km · Sivas 103 km · Sorgun 103 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 Gemerek (39.1834°, 36.0719°, elevation 1,208 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).