Climate and average weather in Nizip

In Nizip, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late March to late May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Nizip typically varies from 2°C to 38°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 42°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Nizip for warm-weather activities are from late March to late May and early October to mid November.

Hottest
Jul
38°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Dec
73 mm
Driest
Aug
1 mm
Rain / yr
388 mm
59 wet days
Daylight
9.5–14.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
524 m
37.0°N
Clearest
Aug
6% cloud

Nizip is district in Gaziantep Province, Turkey.

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

Nizip 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 March to late May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Nizip, 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 May 30 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 32°C. The hottest month of the year in Nizip is July, with an average high of 38°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 25 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 15°C. The coldest month of the year in Nizip is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 9°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan92
Feb123
Mar166
Apr2210
May2915
Jun3520
Jul3824
Aug3824
Sep3419
Oct2714
Nov187
Dec113

How hot and cold Nizip 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, Nizip feels like about 39°C (around July 29). About 115 days a year carry some heat stress, and 13 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -2°C (around January 25), with roughly 49 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan99-12
Feb111203
Mar161646
Apr2222910
May29291515
Jun35352020
Jul38382424
Aug38382424
Sep34341919
Oct27271414
Nov171867
Dec111113

Average hourly temperature in Nizip

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 July afternoons, near 38°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Nizip 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 / 729.91.59.72.1
Feb12° / 589.11.210.63.0
Mar16° / 507.90.111.75.5
Apr22° / 10°346.5012.97.4
May29° / 15°224.40146.7
Jun35° / 20°41.2014.53.5
Jul38° / 24°10.3014.31.1
Aug38° / 24°10.3013.41.2
Sep34° / 19°30.8012.34.3
Oct27° / 14°253.80117.5
Nov18° / 445.60.2106.3
Dec11° / 739.20.69.52.9

Chance of rain

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

Nizip gets about 388 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 6.6 months, from around Oct 24 to May 11, peaking in February at about 33% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 12.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 73 mm over about 9 wet days; August is the driest, with 1 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetFeb 17 · 33%Jul 12 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3010
Feb329
Mar278
Apr227
May144
Jun41
Jul10
Aug10
Sep31
Oct124
Nov206
Dec309

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Nizip collects about 388 mm of rain across 59 wet days — roughly 32 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 73 mm, while August is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec72585034224113254473
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan72102
Feb5891
Mar5080
Apr3470
May2240
Jun410
Jul100
Aug100
Sep310
Oct2540
Nov4460
Dec7391

Snow in Nizip

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.

Nizip averages about 4 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 12 to Mar 3 — about 2.7 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.4 day of snow and an estimated 7 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 20 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 25
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan27
Feb18
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec14

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Nizip, 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 12 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 23. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 100% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 24 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 11. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 50% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 10 · 100%Jan 3 · 46%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5050
Feb5248
Mar5941
Apr6634
May8020
Jun973
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep973
Oct8119
Nov6436
Dec5050

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 8, brings about 14 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 5 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.76:464:30
Feb10.66:265:01
Mar11.75:475:30
Apr12.95:015:57
May14.04:266:24
Jun14.54:136:45
Jul14.34:256:44
Aug13.44:506:16
Sep12.35:165:30
Oct11.05:434:45
Nov10.06:154:14
Dec9.56:414:09

Sunny days

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

Nizip averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around May 20 to Oct 17. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 11 sunny days — about 62% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1530 daysJan 211 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr14Mixed
May19Bright
Jun27Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep28Brilliant
Oct21Bright
Nov16Bright
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 Nizip, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.5 months, from around June 30 to September 13. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 18% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 14 to June 29, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 4 · 100%Aug 7 · 77%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May94600
Jun811810
Jul5335121
Aug4834171
Sep752230
Oct93700
Nov99100
Dec100000

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Nizip is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around May 6 to Sep 14. The windiest month is July, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 15 to May 5, with November the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 8 · 16 km/hNov 4 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar10calm
Apr11calm
May12calm
Jun15light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep11calm
Oct9calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Best time to visit Nizip

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early April, Nizip 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 times of year to visit Nizip for general outdoor tourist activities run from late March to late May and again from early October to mid November, with a peak score in the third week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 21 · 8.0

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
Jan2.1poor
Feb3.1poor
Mar5.5fair
Apr7.3good
May6.7good
Jun3.5fair
Jul1.2poor
Aug1.3poor
Sep4.3fair
Oct7.5good
Nov6.3good
Dec3.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Nizip for hot-weather activities run from early May to mid June and again from early September to late October, with a peak score in the first week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 5 · 8.8

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 Nizip, 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 July (highs near 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 9°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Nizip sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Nizip 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 Nizip peaks around June 21 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 12 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 21UV 10Jan 12UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr7High
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Nizip

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
Feb2.50
Mar40
Apr73
May7.54.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.55.5
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct50
Nov20
Dec00

Air quality in Nizip 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 Nizip is worst in March — around 28 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (July, 16 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 2028 µg/m³Jul 2017 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb23Moderate
Mar28Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May25Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep21Moderate
Oct21Moderate
Nov19Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Nizip is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 28 to November 30 (276 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2890%Nov 3090%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6931
Feb7728
Mar971
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov973
Dec8131

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. Nizip banks about 3,295 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar39
Apr183
May364
Jun525
Jul654
Aug649
Sep495
Oct314
Nov72
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.

Nizip receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 8.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 25 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 28.1 kWhDec 222.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.4Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.8Bright
Apr6.1Intense
May7.1Intense
Jun7.9Intense
Jul8.0Intense
Aug7.2Intense
Sep5.9Bright
Oct4.3Bright
Nov2.9Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Nizip?

Nizip sits at 37.0°N, 37.8°E, 524 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Birecik, 16 km away.

Topography around Nizip

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Nizip has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 125 m around an average of 510 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 601 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,603 m.

The land around Nizip is covered by cropland (53%) and artificial surfaces (31%) within 3 km, cropland (57%) and grassland (31%) within 16 km, and cropland (58%) and grassland (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
125 m
16 km
601 m
80 km
1,603 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Birecik 16 km · Jarābulus 29 km · Gaziantep 37 km · ‘Ayn al ‘Arab 51 km · Manbij 55 km · Suruç 56 km · Kabbasin 67 km · Kilis 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 Nizip (37.0097°, 37.7942°, elevation 524 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).