Climate and average weather in Viranşehir

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

Best: late March to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Viranşehir typically varies from 2°C to 40°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 43°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 Viranşehir for warm-weather activities are from late March to mid May and early October to late November.

Hottest
Jul
40°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
72 mm
Driest
Jul
1 mm
Rain / yr
412 mm
62 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
551 m
37.2°N
Clearest
Aug
6% cloud

Viranşehir 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 mid May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Viranşehir, 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 1 to September 23, with daily high temperatures above 33°C. The hottest month of the year in Viranşehir is July, with an average high of 40°C and low of 25°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 25 to March 13, with daily high temperatures below 16°C. The coldest month of the year in Viranşehir is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 10°C.

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

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan102
Feb123
Mar166
Apr2210
May2915
Jun3621
Jul4025
Aug3925
Sep3420
Oct2714
Nov188
Dec124

How hot and cold Viranşehir 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, Viranşehir feels like about 40°C (around July 25). About 121 days a year carry some heat stress, and 47 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 -1°C (around January 28), 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)
Jan1010-12
Feb121203
Mar161646
Apr22221010
May29291515
Jun36362121
Jul40402525
Aug39392525
Sep34342020
Oct27271414
Nov181868
Dec121214

Average hourly temperature in Viranşehir

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 40°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Viranşehir 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
Jan10° / 729.71.49.72.4
Feb12° / 649.31.210.63.2
Mar16° / 598.90.211.75.4
Apr22° / 10°447.4012.97.2
May29° / 15°295.60146.4
Jun36° / 21°41.2014.52.8
Jul40° / 25°10.2014.30.3
Aug39° / 25°10.1013.40.5
Sep34° / 20°30.7012.33.8
Oct27° / 14°284.20117.3
Nov18° / 435.70.1106.6
Dec12° / 669.20.59.53.3

Chance of rain

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

Viranşehir gets about 412 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 6.8 months, from around Oct 22 to May 16, peaking in February at about 35% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 14.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 72 mm over about 10 wet days; July is the driest, with 1 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 18 · 35%Aug 14 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan2910
Feb349
Mar309
Apr257
May176
Jun41
Jul10
Aug00
Sep21
Oct134
Nov206
Dec309

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Viranşehir collects about 412 mm of rain across 62 wet days — roughly 34 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 72 mm, while July is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec72645944294113284366
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan72101
Feb6491
Mar5990
Apr4470
May2960
Jun410
Jul100
Aug100
Sep310
Oct2840
Nov4360
Dec6691

Snow in Viranşehir

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.

Viranşehir averages about 3 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 11 to Mar 2 — about 2.7 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 1.3 day of snow and an estimated 6 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 16 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 1
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan16
Feb16
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov00
Dec14

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Viranşehir, 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 13 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 23. The clearest month is August, 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 12. 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 13 · 100%Jan 2 · 48%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5050
Feb5050
Mar5842
Apr6337
May7822
Jun973
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep982
Oct8020
Nov6436
Dec5149

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 17, brings about 14 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, only 9 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.76:394:21
Feb10.66:184:53
Mar11.75:405:22
Apr12.94:535:50
May14.04:186:17
Jun14.54:056:38
Jul14.34:176:36
Aug13.44:426:08
Sep12.35:085:22
Oct11.05:354:37
Nov10.06:074:05
Dec9.56:344:01

Sunny days

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

Viranşehir averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around May 20 to Oct 19. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 11 sunny days — about 64% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1930 daysFeb 1510 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr14Mixed
May18Bright
Jun26Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug30Brilliant
Sep28Brilliant
Oct21Bright
Nov15Bright
Dec13Mixed

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 Viranşehir, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% 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
Apr9910
May9730
Jun9910
Jul9451
Aug89101
Sep9730
Oct9730
Nov9910
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Viranşehir is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around May 12 to Sep 2. The windiest month is June, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 3 to Jan 29, with October the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 26 · 12 km/hOct 31 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep9calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Best time to visit Viranşehir

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 23 · 7.8

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
Jan2.4poor
Feb3.2poor
Mar5.4fair
Apr7.1good
May6.4good
Jun2.8poor
Jul0.3poor
Aug0.6poor
Sep3.8fair
Oct7.2good
Nov6.5good
Dec3.3poor

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 Viranşehir for hot-weather activities run from early May to mid June and again from mid September to late October, with a peak score in the first week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 6 · 8.7

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 Viranşehir, 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 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 10°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Viranşehir sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Viranşehir 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 Viranşehir peaks around June 17 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 11 at about 2 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJun 17UV 10Jan 11UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Viranşehir

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
Feb10
Mar3.50
Apr6.51.5
May84.5
Jun8.56
Jul85
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct50
Nov20
Dec00

Air quality in Viranşehir 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 Viranşehir is worst in March — around 26 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 2026 µg/m³Jul 2218 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb22Moderate
Mar26Moderate
Apr25Moderate
May26Moderate
Jun25Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep20Moderate
Oct22Moderate
Nov20Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Viranşehir is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 25 to December 7 (286 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2590%Dec 790%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7131
Feb7925
Mar970
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov980
Dec8426

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. Viranşehir banks about 3,467 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
Mar41
Apr182
May373
Jun557
Jul698
Aug682
Sep513
Oct331
Nov89
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.

Viranşehir 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 6.2 months, from around Mar 27 to Sep 30. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 72% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 298.0 kWhDec 202.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.4Moderate
Feb3.3Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr6.0Bright
May7.0Intense
Jun7.9Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.2Intense
Sep5.9Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov2.9Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Viranşehir?

Viranşehir sits at 37.2°N, 39.8°E, 551 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Ceylanpınar, 49 km away.

Topography around Viranşehir

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Viranşehir has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 99 m around an average of 557 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 340 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,599 m.

The land around Viranşehir is covered by cropland (57%) and artificial surfaces (31%) within 3 km, cropland (86%) within 16 km, and cropland (66%) and grassland (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
99 m
16 km
340 m
80 km
1,599 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Ceylanpınar 49 km · Siverek 71 km · Kızıltepe 73 km · Ad Darbāsīyah 81 km · Hilvan 81 km · Urfa 85 km · Diyarbakır 87 km · Mardin 88 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 Viranşehir (37.2235°, 39.7552°, elevation 551 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).