Climate and average weather in Kayseri

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

Best: mid August to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kayseri typically varies from -6°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -17°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 Kayseri for warm-weather activities are from early June to late July and mid August to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
29°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
May
81 mm
Driest
Aug
6 mm
Rain / yr
522 mm
94 wet days
Daylight
9.3–14.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,054 m
38.7°N
Clearest
Aug
16% cloud

Kayseri is city in Turkey.

Air quality
Elevated
PM10 61.8 µg/m³ · 2019

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

Kayseri 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 August to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Kayseri, 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 26, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Kayseri is August, with an average high of 29°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from December 1 to March 2, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Kayseri is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of 2°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)
Jan2-6
Feb4-5
Mar10-1
Apr153
May207
Jun2511
Jul2914
Aug2915
Sep2511
Oct196
Nov110
Dec5-4

How hot and cold Kayseri 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 -11°C (around January 29), with roughly 155 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 24 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)
Jan22-10-6
Feb44-9-5
Mar910-4-1
Apr151513
May202067
Jun25251111
Jul29291414
Aug29291515
Sep25251011
Oct191946
Nov1111-20
Dec55-7-4

Average hourly temperature in Kayseri

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Kayseri 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 / -6°5097.99.60.0
Feb / -5°458.87.210.50.2
Mar10° / -1°6611.86.511.72.0
Apr15° / 7413.11.7134.2
May20° / 8114014.16.0
Jun25° / 11°478.8014.77.4
Jul29° / 14°81.8014.47.4
Aug29° / 15°61.4013.57.1
Sep25° / 11°193.4012.38.5
Oct19° / 3770.4116.8
Nov11° / 416.32.39.93.2
Dec / -4°488.76.59.30.2

Chance of rain

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

Kayseri gets about 522 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 19 to Jun 20, peaking in May at about 47% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 1.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 81 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 2 · 47%Aug 1 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb329
Mar3812
Apr4413
May4314
Jun299
Jul72
Aug51
Sep113
Oct227
Nov226
Dec299

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kayseri collects about 522 mm of rain across 94 wet days — roughly 44 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 81 mm, while August is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec5045667481478619374148
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan5098
Feb4597
Mar66127
Apr74132
May81140
Jun4790
Jul820
Aug610
Sep1930
Oct3770
Nov4162
Dec4897

Snow in Kayseri

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.

Kayseri averages about 33 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 20 to May 1 — about 6.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 32 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 156 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 31
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan832
Feb739
Mar731
Apr28
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov212
Dec733

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kayseri, 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 28 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around October 22. 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 23 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around May 27. 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 6 · 96%Mar 12 · 43%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4654
Feb4753
Mar4555
Apr4852
May6040
Jun8119
Jul928
Aug964
Sep9010
Oct7129
Nov6040
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 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)
Jan9.67:004:34
Feb10.56:385:08
Mar11.75:575:38
Apr13.05:086:09
May14.14:316:37
Jun14.74:176:59
Jul14.44:306:58
Aug13.54:576:28
Sep12.35:255:40
Oct11.05:544:52
Nov9.96:284:19
Dec9.36:554:13

Sunny days

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

Kayseri 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 4.5 months, from around Jun 9 to Oct 22. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 8 sunny days — about 70% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 827 daysApr 217 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar8Mixed
Apr8Gloomy
May11Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul25Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep23Bright
Oct17Bright
Nov14Mixed
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 Kayseri, 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
Jul973
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 Kayseri is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJul 14 · 8 km/hNov 6 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Kayseri

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Kayseri 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 Kayseri for general outdoor tourist activities run from early June to late July and again from mid August to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 13 · 8.6

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
Feb0.2poor
Mar2.0poor
Apr4.2fair
May6.0good
Jun7.4good
Jul7.3good
Aug7.2good
Sep8.4ideal
Oct6.7good
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 Kayseri for hot-weather activities is from late June to late September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 19 · 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 Kayseri, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 2°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Kayseri sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

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

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highModerateJun 23UV 10Jan 10UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr8Very high
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Kayseri

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 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
Mar40
Apr74
May7.54.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct4.50
Nov10
Dec00

Air quality in Kayseri 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 Kayseri is worst in May — around 23 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (January, 12 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 1422 µg/m³Jan 1212 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar19Moderate
Apr20Moderate
May23Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Kayseri typically lasts about 234 days, from around March 27 to November 15 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 23 to October 24.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2750%Apr 2390%Oct 2490%Nov 1550%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb1828
Mar4031
Apr8225
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct948
Nov5130
Dec2231

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. Kayseri banks about 1,395 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
Apr5
May114
Jun236
Jul358
Aug370
Sep236
Oct76
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.

Kayseri receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.2 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 24 to Sep 26. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.6 kWh/m² (intense).

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

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 67.7 kWhDec 172.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.6Moderate
Feb3.6Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.8Bright
May6.7Intense
Jun7.4Intense
Jul7.7Intense
Aug7.1Intense
Sep5.6Bright
Oct4.0Moderate
Nov2.8Moderate
Dec2.2Moderate

Where is Kayseri?

Kayseri sits at 38.7°N, 35.5°E, 1,054 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Talas, 8.0 km away.

Topography around Kayseri

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kayseri has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 111 m around an average of 1,055 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,469 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,957 m.

The land around Kayseri is covered by artificial surfaces (82%) within 3 km, grassland (41%) and cropland (30%) within 16 km, and cropland (49%) and grassland (43%) within 80 km.

3 km
111 m
16 km
1,469 m
80 km
2,957 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Talas 8.0 km · Hacılar 10 km · Develi 38 km · Ürgüp 51 km · Cappadocia 58 km · Nevşehir 68 km · Yahyalı 71 km · Gemerek 71 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 Kayseri (38.7322°, 35.4853°, elevation 1,054 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).