Climate and average weather in Kulp

In Kulp, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early September to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kulp typically varies from -6°C to 33°C, and is rarely below -14°C or above 37°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 Kulp for warm-weather activities are from late May to late June and early September to late October.

Hottest
Aug
33°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Mar
163 mm
Driest
Aug
4 mm
Rain / yr
1100 mm
107 wet days
Daylight
9.3–14.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
998 m
38.5°N
Clearest
Aug
12% cloud

Kulp is district of Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey.

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

Kulp 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 late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Kulp, 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 5 to September 24, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Kulp is August, with an average high of 33°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 28 to March 13, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Kulp is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of 2°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2-6
Feb3-4
Mar80
Apr145
May219
Jun2815
Jul3319
Aug3319
Sep2814
Oct209
Nov112
Dec4-3

How hot and cold Kulp 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, Kulp feels like about 34°C (around July 30). About 55 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -9°C (around January 14), with roughly 134 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)
Jan22-9-6
Feb33-7-4
Mar88-20
Apr141435
May212199
Jun28281515
Jul33331919
Aug33331919
Sep28281414
Oct202089
Nov111102
Dec44-6-3

Average hourly temperature in Kulp

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 -6°C.

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

Kulp 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°15912.111.99.60.0
Feb / -4°14511.81110.50.0
Mar / 16314.39.811.71.4
Apr14° / 15516.33.5133.7
May21° / 10314.40.114.16.1
Jun28° / 15°224.8014.67.0
Jul33° / 19°71.9014.44.5
Aug33° / 19°41.1013.54.5
Sep28° / 14°152.6012.37.5
Oct20° / 728.10.1117.1
Nov11° / 1048.33.29.93.1
Dec / -4°15111.59.99.40.1

Chance of rain

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

Kulp gets about 1100 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 May 30, peaking in April at about 56% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 25.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 163 mm over about 14 wet days; August is the driest, with 4 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 21 · 56%Aug 25 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3812
Feb4312
Mar4714
Apr5416
May4514
Jun175
Jul62
Aug41
Sep93
Oct258
Nov298
Dec3712

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kulp collects about 1100 mm of rain across 107 wet days — roughly 92 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 163 mm, while August is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec15914516315510322741572104151
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1591212
Feb1451211
Mar1631410
Apr155164
May103140
Jun2250
Jul720
Aug410
Sep1530
Oct7280
Nov10483
Dec1511210

Snow in Kulp

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.

Kulp averages about 50 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 26 to May 5 — about 6.3 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 11 days of snow and an estimated 91 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 400 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 31
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1291
Feb11110
Mar1070
Apr417
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov322
Dec1091

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kulp, 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 20 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around October 21. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 99% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 22 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around May 19. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 54% 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 18 · 100%Jan 29 · 44%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4753
Feb4654
Mar4654
Apr4852
May6535
Jun928
Jul991
Aug991
Sep955
Oct7426
Nov5941
Dec4852

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 14, brings about 14 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, 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)
Jan9.66:384:13
Feb10.56:154:46
Mar11.75:355:16
Apr13.04:465:46
May14.14:106:15
Jun14.63:566:36
Jul14.44:086:35
Aug13.54:356:05
Sep12.35:035:18
Oct11.05:324:30
Nov9.96:053:57
Dec9.46:323:52

Sunny days

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

Kulp averages about 17 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 29 to Oct 17. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 9 sunny days — about 68% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 528 daysApr 199 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun23Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep26Brilliant
Oct18Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec12Mixed

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 Kulp, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in May, 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
Aug1000
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 Kulp is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJun 25 · 8 km/hNov 18 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Kulp

In seasonPeak

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

Kulp's rainy season runs November–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 Kulp

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 29 · 8.3

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
Mar1.4poor
Apr3.7fair
May6.1good
Jun6.9good
Jul4.6fair
Aug4.6fair
Sep7.5good
Oct7.0good
Nov3.1poor
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 Kulp for hot-weather activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the second week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 9 · 9.0

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 Kulp, 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 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, Kulp sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Kulp 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 Kulp peaks around June 18 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 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 highVery highVery highModerateJun 18UV 10Dec 21UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr7High
May8Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Kulp

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 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
Feb1.50
Mar30
Apr6.52
May85
Jun96
Jul8.55.5
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct50
Nov10
Dec00

Air quality in Kulp 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 Kulp is worst in May — around 26 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.6× the cleanest month (July, 16 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 1026 µg/m³Jul 2017 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan19Moderate
Feb22Moderate
Mar26Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May26Moderate
Jun20Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep20Moderate
Oct24Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec17Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Kulp typically lasts about 251 days, from around March 18 to November 23 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 16 to November 1.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1850%Apr 1690%Nov 190%Nov 2350%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb2128
Mar5031
Apr8917
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov6529
Dec2631

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. Kulp banks about 1,998 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
Apr13
May164
Jun345
Jul498
Aug501
Sep337
Oct140
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.

Kulp receives about 5.1 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 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

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

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 28.0 kWhDec 182.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.6Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.9Intense
Jun7.9Intense
Jul7.9Intense
Aug7.2Intense
Sep5.9Bright
Oct4.1Bright
Nov2.8Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Kulp?

Kulp sits at 38.5°N, 41.0°E, 998 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Lice, 32 km away.

Topography around Kulp

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kulp has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 833 m around an average of 997 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,880 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,435 m.

The land around Kulp is covered by grassland (73%) within 3 km, grassland (80%) within 16 km, and grassland (59%) and cropland (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
833 m
16 km
1,880 m
80 km
2,435 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Lice 32 km · Silvan 40 km · Genç 48 km · Muş 49 km · Solhan 52 km · Kozluk 53 km · Bingöl 62 km · Batman 69 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 Kulp (38.4975°, 41.0067°, elevation 998 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).