Climate and average weather in Suşehri

In Suşehri, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid June to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Suşehri typically varies from -9°C to 26°C, and is rarely below -17°C or above 31°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 Suşehri for warm-weather activities is from mid June to early October.

Hottest
Aug
26°
Coldest
Jan
-9°
Wettest
May
121 mm
Driest
Jul
16 mm
Rain / yr
763 mm
124 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,049 m
40.2°N
Clearest
Aug
30% cloud

Suşehri is district of Sivas, Turkey.

Density
31/km²
people per km²

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

Suşehri 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 early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from May 28 to October 4, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Suşehri is August, with an average high of 26°C and low of 12°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from December 2 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 3°C. The coldest month of the year in Suşehri is January, with an average low of -9°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 September.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-2-9
Feb0-7
Mar5-4
Apr110
May175
Jun219
Jul2512
Aug2612
Sep229
Oct164
Nov8-2
Dec1-7

How hot and cold Suşehri 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 -13°C (around January 21), with roughly 176 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 66 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)
Jan-2-2-12-9
Feb00-10-7
Mar45-6-4
Apr1111-10
May171745
Jun212189
Jul25251212
Aug26261212
Sep222289
Oct161634
Nov88-4-2
Dec01-10-7

Average hourly temperature in Suşehri

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -9°C.

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

Suşehri 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-2° / -9°7411.1129.50.0
Feb-0° / -7°6210.610.810.40.0
Mar / -4°8113.210.411.70.2
Apr11° / 10015.44132.5
May17° / 121180.414.24.6
Jun21° / 5511.8014.86.5
Jul25° / 12°164.5014.68.2
Aug26° / 12°164.7013.68.1
Sep22° / 366.2012.37.7
Oct16° / 669.2110.95.4
Nov / -2°708.75.29.81.3
Dec / -7°6510.710.79.20.0

Chance of rain

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

Suşehri gets about 763 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, 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 58% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 30.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 121 mm over about 18 wet days; July is the driest, with 16 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 6 · 58%Jul 30 · 13%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3511
Feb3911
Mar4313
Apr5215
May5618
Jun3912
Jul165
Aug155
Sep206
Oct299
Nov309
Dec3511

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Suşehri collects about 763 mm of rain across 124 wet days — roughly 64 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 121 mm, while July is the driest at just 16 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec74628110012155161636667065
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan741112
Feb621111
Mar811310
Apr100154
May121180
Jun55120
Jul1650
Aug1650
Sep3660
Oct6691
Nov7095
Dec651111

Snow in Suşehri

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.

Suşehri averages about 55 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 12 to May 12 — about 7 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 11 days of snow and an estimated 62 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 320 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 30
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1262
Feb1173
Mar1058
Apr420
May02
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct15
Nov535
Dec1165

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Suşehri, 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 June 1 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around October 18. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 90% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 19 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around May 31. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 64% 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 25 · 91%Jan 3 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3664
Feb3862
Mar3862
Apr4159
May4852
Jun7030
Jul8416
Aug9010
Sep7921
Oct5842
Nov4951
Dec3862

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 18, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 9 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.56:544:20
Feb10.46:304:55
Mar11.75:475:27
Apr13.04:566:00
May14.24:176:30
Jun14.84:036:53
Jul14.64:156:51
Aug13.64:446:20
Sep12.35:145:30
Oct10.95:454:40
Nov9.86:214:05
Dec9.26:493:59

Sunny days

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

Suşehri averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Jun 9 to Oct 18. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 7 sunny days — about 66% fewer than the August peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 921 daysJan 57 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May8Mixed
Jun14Mixed
Jul20Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep18Bright
Oct13Mixed
Nov11Mixed
Dec8Mixed

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 Suşehri, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 3% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May10000
Jun9370
Jul71263
Aug72262
Sep9730
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

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 Suşehri is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJul 22 · 6 km/hNov 7 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Suşehri

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Suşehri 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 time of year to visit Suşehri for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid June to early October, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 12 · 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
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.2poor
Apr2.5poor
May4.6fair
Jun6.5good
Jul8.2ideal
Aug8.1ideal
Sep7.7ideal
Oct5.3fair
Nov1.4poor
Dec0.0poor

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 Suşehri for hot-weather activities is from early July to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 7.7

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 Suşehri, 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 26°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, Suşehri sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 12°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Suşehri 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 Suşehri peaks around August 10 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 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 highModerateAug 10UV 10Dec 20UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr8Very high
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Suşehri

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
Feb2.50
Mar3.50
Apr74
May84.5
Jun96
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct4.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Suşehri 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 Suşehri is worst in April — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.1× the cleanest month (July, 8 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodApr 1617 µg/m³Sep 98 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb13Moderate
Mar16Moderate
Apr17Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun12Good
Jul8Good
Aug8Good
Sep8Good
Oct11Good
Nov10Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Suşehri typically lasts about 205 days, from around April 13 to November 3 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 5 to October 18.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2710%Apr 1350%May 590%Oct 1890%Nov 350%Dec 1710%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan431
Feb728
Mar1831
Apr5530
May964
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8713
Nov3230
Dec1131

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. Suşehri banks about 911 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May42
Jun149
Jul252
Aug276
Sep163
Oct29
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.

Suşehri receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.0 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Mar 13 to Sep 23. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.1 kWh/m² — roughly 70% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 46.9 kWhDec 172.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.4Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar4.8Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May6.2Intense
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.8Intense
Aug6.2Intense
Sep5.0Bright
Oct3.5Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec2.0Moderate

Where is Suşehri?

Suşehri sits at 40.2°N, 38.1°E, 1,049 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Şebin Karahisar, 32 km away.

KorganSivasEspiye

Topography around Suşehri

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Suşehri has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 712 m around an average of 1,125 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,120 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,000 m.

The land around Suşehri is covered by grassland (41%), cropland (23%) and bare terrain (20%) within 3 km, grassland (66%) within 16 km, and grassland (62%) and trees (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
712 m
16 km
2,120 m
80 km
3,000 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Şebin Karahisar 32 km · Gürgentepe 81 km · Bulancak 87 km · Giresun 88 km · Ordu 92 km · Korgan 97 km · Sivas 102 km · Espiye 102 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 Suşehri (40.16°, 38.0841°, elevation 1,049 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).