Climate and average weather in Tirebolu

In Tirebolu, the summers are humid, warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tirebolu typically varies from 4°C to 25°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 28°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 Tirebolu for warm-weather activities is from mid May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
25°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Oct
213 mm
Driest
Jul
92 mm
Rain / yr
1560 mm
171 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
29 m
41.0°N
Clearest
Jul
49% cloud

Tirebolu is district and town in Giresun Province, Turkey.

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

Tirebolu 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 May to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from June 6 to September 30, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Tirebolu is August, with an average high of 25°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from December 8 to March 26, with daily high temperatures below 11°C. The coldest month of the year in Tirebolu is January, with an average low of 4°C and high of 9°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan94
Feb94
Mar115
Apr148
May1813
Jun2217
Jul2420
Aug2520
Sep2218
Oct1914
Nov1510
Dec116

Average hourly temperature in Tirebolu

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 25°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Tirebolu 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 / 13715.47.39.41.4
Feb / 10113.66.510.41.4
Mar11° / 12115.7511.72.2
Apr14° / 104140.713.13.8
May18° / 13°10814014.35.4
Jun22° / 17°10312.9014.96.3
Jul24° / 20°9213.5014.66.5
Aug25° / 20°10714.7013.66.3
Sep22° / 18°18514.7012.36.0
Oct19° / 14°21315.8010.95.4
Nov15° / 10°15412.71.39.74.1
Dec11° / 13514.43.79.12.3

Chance of rain

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

Tirebolu gets about 1560 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.1 months, from around Jan 10 to Apr 13, peaking in March at about 53% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 15.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 213 mm over about 16 wet days; July is the driest, with 92 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 17 · 53%Jun 15 · 42%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4815
Feb4914
Mar5116
Apr4714
May4414
Jun4313
Jul4414
Aug4715
Sep4915
Oct4916
Nov4413
Dec4714

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tirebolu collects about 1560 mm of rain across 171 wet days — roughly 130 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 213 mm, while July is the driest at just 92 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec13710112110410810392107185213154135
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan137157
Feb101147
Mar121165
Apr104141
May108140
Jun103130
Jul92140
Aug107150
Sep185150
Oct213160
Nov154131
Dec135144

Snow in Tirebolu

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.

Tirebolu averages about 25 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 4 to Apr 17 — about 5.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 36 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 131 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 29
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan736
Feb745
Mar522
Apr11
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov15
Dec421

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tirebolu, 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 7 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 13. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 61% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 14 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 6. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 67% 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 3 · 65%Jan 6 · 32%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3367
Feb3565
Mar3664
Apr4258
May4753
Jun5644
Jul6139
Aug5743
Sep5149
Oct4456
Nov4258
Dec3565

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 21, brings about 15 hours of light; the shortest, around December 20, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.46:534:15
Feb10.46:284:50
Mar11.75:455:24
Apr13.14:525:58
May14.34:126:30
Jun14.93:576:53
Jul14.64:106:51
Aug13.64:396:18
Sep12.35:115:27
Oct10.95:434:36
Nov9.76:204:00
Dec9.16:493:53

Sunny days

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

Tirebolu averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Apr 27 to Oct 15. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 7 sunny days — about 39% fewer than the July peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 112 daysJan 296 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr8Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun10Mixed
Jul11Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep9Mixed
Oct9Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec7Gloomy

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 Tirebolu, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around May 28 to October 12. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 95% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 13 to May 27, and November 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 17 · 100%Jul 25 · 2%oppressivehumidcomfortabledrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar10000000
Apr9820000
May513513100
Jun626472010
Jul043446150
Aug042550211
Sep822382930
Oct433321300
Nov9450000
Dec10000000

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 Tirebolu is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Nov 2 to Apr 6. The windiest month is February, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 7 to Nov 1, with May the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 2 · 12 km/hMay 11 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct9calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Tirebolu

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Tirebolu 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 Tirebolu for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 6 · 6.7

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
Jan1.4poor
Feb1.4poor
Mar2.2poor
Apr3.8fair
May5.4fair
Jun6.3good
Jul6.5good
Aug6.3good
Sep6.0good
Oct5.4fair
Nov4.1fair
Dec2.3poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 3 · 5.8

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 Tirebolu, 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 25°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear 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 August, Tirebolu sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 20°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Tirebolu

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 14 km away) is warmest in August at about 25°C and coldest in February near 9°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 10 to Oct 16 — about 4.2 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan10Bracing
Feb9Bracing
Mar9Bracing
Apr11Bracing
May16Cool
Jun21Refreshing
Jul24Warm
Aug25Warm
Sep24Refreshing
Oct20Refreshing
Nov16Cool
Dec13Bracing

UV index (midday) in Tirebolu 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 Tirebolu peaks around June 21 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 21UV 8Dec 22UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May7High
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep7High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Tirebolu

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 4.5 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
Feb00
Mar00
Apr6.50.5
May73
Jun84.5
Jul84.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep62
Oct3.50
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Tirebolu is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 23 to January 14 (326 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2390%Jan 1490%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8821
Feb8522
Mar960
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec960

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. Tirebolu banks about 1,823 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
Apr40
May171
Jun287
Jul373
Aug388
Sep297
Oct202
Nov64
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.

Tirebolu receives about 4.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.6 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 19. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.6 kWh/m² — roughly 74% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 266.3 kWhDec 171.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.9Dim
Feb2.8Moderate
Mar3.9Moderate
Apr5.1Bright
May5.9Bright
Jun6.2Intense
Jul6.0Intense
Aug5.2Bright
Sep4.1Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov2.1Moderate
Dec1.6Dim

Where is Tirebolu?

Tirebolu sits at 41.0°N, 38.8°E, 29 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Espiye, 11 km away.

Topography around Tirebolu

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tirebolu has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 503 m around an average of 74 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 754 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,289 m.

The land around Tirebolu is covered by water (58%) and trees (36%) within 3 km, water (54%) and trees (44%) within 16 km, and trees (42%), water (36%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
503 m
16 km
754 m
80 km
3,289 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Espiye 11 km · Görele 16 km · Beşikdüzü 36 km · Giresun 37 km · Vakfıkebir 39 km · Bulancak 49 km · Akçaabat 64 km · Trabzon 77 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 Tirebolu (41.0069°, 38.8139°, elevation 29 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).