Climate and average weather in Genç

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

Best: early September to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Genç typically varies from -8°C to 33°C, and is rarely below -17°C or above 36°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 Genç for warm-weather activities are from late May to late June and early September to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
33°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
Apr
160 mm
Driest
Aug
3 mm
Rain / yr
1103 mm
106 wet days
Daylight
9.3–14.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,015 m
38.7°N
Clearest
Aug
14% cloud

Genç is district and town of Bingöl, Turkey.

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

Genç 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 early September to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from June 6 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 25°C. The hottest month of the year in Genç is August, with an average high of 33°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 30 to March 11, with daily high temperatures below 6°C. The coldest month of the year in Genç is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of -0°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°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan0-8
Feb2-6
Mar7-2
Apr143
May208
Jun2712
Jul3217
Aug3317
Sep2712
Oct207
Nov100
Dec3-6

How hot and cold Genç 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, Genç feels like about 33°C (around August 1). About 41 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -12°C (around January 16), with roughly 153 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 45 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)
Jan00-11-8
Feb22-9-6
Mar77-4-2
Apr141413
May202078
Jun27271212
Jul32321717
Aug32331717
Sep27271212
Oct202067
Nov1010-20
Dec33-8-6

Average hourly temperature in Genç

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -8°C.

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

Genç 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-0° / -8°15111.811.69.60.0
Feb / -7°13711.810.610.50.0
Mar / -2°15714.38.411.70.9
Apr14° / 16016.12.3133.5
May20° / 11814.2014.16.0
Jun27° / 12°235.1014.77.6
Jul32° / 17°61.7014.45.2
Aug33° / 17°30.9013.55.1
Sep27° / 12°182.5012.37.9
Oct20° / 827.60.1116.9
Nov10° / -0°1068.12.69.92.6
Dec / -6°14311.59.29.30.0

Chance of rain

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

Genç gets about 1103 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 6.2 months, from around Nov 24 to Jun 1, peaking in April at about 54% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 16.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 160 mm over about 16 wet days; August is the driest, with 3 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 10 · 54%Aug 16 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3712
Feb4212
Mar4714
Apr5416
May4514
Jun175
Jul62
Aug31
Sep83
Oct248
Nov288
Dec3712

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Genç collects about 1103 mm of rain across 106 wet days — roughly 92 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 160 mm, while August is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec15113715716011823631882106143
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1511212
Feb1371211
Mar157148
Apr160162
May118140
Jun2350
Jul620
Aug310
Sep1830
Oct8280
Nov10683
Dec143129

Snow in Genç

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.

Genç averages about 45 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 29 to May 1 — about 6.1 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 11 days of snow and an estimated 120 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 410 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 1
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan12102
Feb11120
Mar866
Apr212
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov318
Dec993

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Genç, 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 22 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around October 20. 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 21 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around May 21. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% 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 8 · 99%Apr 1 · 43%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4753
Feb4654
Mar4555
Apr4555
May6139
Jun9010
Jul982
Aug982
Sep937
Oct7228
Nov5743
Dec4753

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 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.66:404:14
Feb10.56:174:47
Mar11.75:375:18
Apr13.04:485:48
May14.14:116:17
Jun14.73:576:39
Jul14.44:106:37
Aug13.54:366:08
Sep12.35:055:20
Oct11.05:344:32
Nov9.96:083:59
Dec9.36:353:53

Sunny days

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

Genç averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around May 30 to Oct 19. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 9 sunny days — about 67% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 2828 daysApr 29 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun22Bright
Jul27Brilliant
Aug28Brilliant
Sep25Brilliant
Oct18Bright
Nov13Mixed
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 Genç, 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
Jun1000
Jul991
Aug991
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 Genç is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJun 26 · 9 km/hNov 29 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Genç

In seasonPeak

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

Genç's rainy season runs October–May, 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 Genç

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Genç 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 Genç for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to late June and again from early September to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 25 · 8.4

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
Mar0.9poor
Apr3.5poor
May6.0good
Jun7.5good
Jul5.3fair
Aug5.1fair
Sep7.8ideal
Oct6.8good
Nov2.6poor
Dec0.1poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 7 · 9.1

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 Genç, 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 33°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -0°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Genç sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Genç 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 Genç peaks around August 14 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 23 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 highVery highVery highModerateAug 14UV 10Dec 23UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr7High
May8Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Genç

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 5.5 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
Mar30
Apr6.52.5
May84.5
Jun96
Jul8.55.5
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Genç 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 Genç is worst in May — around 23 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (December, 13 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 1123 µg/m³Dec 2013 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb17Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr22Moderate
May23Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov14Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Genç typically lasts about 230 days, from around March 30 to November 14 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 24 to October 27.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 310%Mar 3050%Apr 2490%Oct 2790%Nov 1450%Jan 810%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan931
Feb1328
Mar3331
Apr7923
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct965
Nov5030
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. Genç banks about 1,723 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr4
May125
Jun291
Jul447
Aug459
Sep297
Oct100
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.

Genç receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 29 to Sep 29. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.1 kWh/m² — roughly 73% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 18.0 kWhDec 172.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May6.8Intense
Jun7.8Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.2Intense
Sep5.8Bright
Oct4.0Bright
Nov2.7Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Genç?

Genç sits at 38.7°N, 40.6°E, 1,015 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Bingöl, 16 km away.

Topography around Genç

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Genç has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 253 m around an average of 1,055 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,320 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,319 m.

The land around Genç is covered by grassland (50%) and cropland (23%) within 3 km, grassland (61%) within 16 km, and grassland (69%) and cropland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
253 m
16 km
1,320 m
80 km
2,319 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Bingöl 16 km · Lice 33 km · Kulp 48 km · Solhan 50 km · Karakoçan 51 km · Kovancılar 60 km · Silvan 79 km · Muş 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 Genç (38.7477°, 40.5534°, elevation 1,015 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).