Climate and average weather in Yozgat

In Yozgat, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late August to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yozgat typically varies from -4°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -14°C or above 35°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 Yozgat for warm-weather activities are from late May to mid July and late August to late October.

Hottest
Aug
30°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
May
62 mm
Driest
Aug
7 mm
Rain / yr
473 mm
88 wet days
Daylight
9.2–14.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,290 m
39.8°N
Clearest
Aug
18% cloud

Yozgat is central district and city in Yozgat Province, Turkey.

Air quality
Moderate
PM2.5 14.3 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
43/km²
people per km²

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

Yozgat 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 August to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Yozgat, 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 2 to September 26, with daily high temperatures above 24°C. The hottest month of the year in Yozgat is August, with an average high of 30°C and low of 15°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 29 to March 1, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Yozgat is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 4°C.

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

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-4
Feb6-3
Mar110
Apr165
May219
Jun2612
Jul3015
Aug3015
Sep2611
Oct207
Nov121
Dec6-2

How hot and cold Yozgat 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 -9°C (around January 31), with roughly 148 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)
Jan44-8-4
Feb66-7-3
Mar1111-30
Apr161625
May212189
Jun26261212
Jul29301515
Aug30301515
Sep26261111
Oct192057
Nov1212-11
Dec66-5-2

Average hourly temperature in Yozgat

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

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

Yozgat 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 / -4°519.469.50.0
Feb / -3°418.64.710.40.5
Mar11° / 61113.911.72.6
Apr16° / 6011.40.7135.0
May21° / 6211.5014.26.6
Jun26° / 12°418.2014.87.4
Jul30° / 15°82.1014.56.8
Aug30° / 15°71.5013.66.7
Sep26° / 11°143.5012.38.4
Oct20° / 315.30.110.97.1
Nov12° / 436.51.59.83.5
Dec / -2°559.34.39.20.4

Chance of rain

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

Yozgat gets about 473 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 Nov 24 to Jun 19, peaking in April at about 39% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 10.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 62 mm over about 12 wet days; August is the driest, with 7 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 21 · 39%Aug 10 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb329
Mar3611
Apr3811
May3612
Jun278
Jul82
Aug52
Sep114
Oct175
Nov227
Dec319

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yozgat collects about 473 mm of rain across 88 wet days — roughly 39 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 62 mm, while August is the driest at just 7 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec5141616062418714314355
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan5196
Feb4195
Mar61114
Apr60111
May62120
Jun4180
Jul820
Aug720
Sep1440
Oct3150
Nov4372
Dec5594

Snow in Yozgat

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.

Yozgat averages about 21 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 27 to Apr 20 — about 5.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 24 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 104 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 24
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan624
Feb526
Mar421
Apr13
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov29
Dec422

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yozgat, 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 22 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around October 18. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 95% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 19 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around May 21. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% 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 6 · 96%Jan 2 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4555
Feb4555
Mar4654
Apr4951
May6238
Jun8020
Jul928
Aug955
Sep8812
Oct6931
Nov6040
Dec4753

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 11, brings about 14 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.57:064:34
Feb10.46:425:08
Mar11.76:005:41
Apr13.05:106:12
May14.24:316:43
Jun14.84:177:05
Jul14.54:307:03
Aug13.64:576:32
Sep12.35:275:43
Oct10.95:584:54
Nov9.86:334:19
Dec9.27:014:13

Sunny days

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

Yozgat averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around Jun 9 to Oct 21. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 7 sunny days — about 71% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1726 daysMar 137 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar8Gloomy
Apr9Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul24Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep22Bright
Oct17Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec10Mixed

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 Yozgat, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, 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
Apr10000
May10000
Jun9370
Jul88111
Aug89111
Sep9910
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.

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

The windier part of the year lasts 2.7 months, from around Jun 16 to Sep 6. The windiest month is July, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 7 to Jan 29, with November the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 23 · 12 km/hNov 18 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun10calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Best time to visit Yozgat

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Yozgat 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 Yozgat for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to mid July and again from late August to late October, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 17 · 8.5

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
Feb0.5poor
Mar2.6poor
Apr5.0fair
May6.6good
Jun7.4good
Jul6.8good
Aug6.8good
Sep8.3ideal
Oct7.1good
Nov3.5fair
Dec0.4poor

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 Yozgat for hot-weather activities is from late June to late September, with a peak score in the last week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 22 · 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 Yozgat, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Yozgat sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Yozgat 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 Yozgat peaks around June 21 at about 10 (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 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highModerateJun 21UV 10Dec 22UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr7Very high
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Yozgat

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 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
Feb00
Mar3.50
Apr73
May7.54
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug85.5
Sep6.53.5
Oct4.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Yozgat 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 Yozgat is worst in May — around 20 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (January, 11 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Yozgat's WHO annual average of 14.3 µg/m³.

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateModerateGoodMay 1419 µg/m³Jan 1211 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb14Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May20Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul11Good
Aug12Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Yozgat typically lasts about 257 days, from around March 14 to November 25 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 17 to October 25.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1450%Apr 1790%Oct 2590%Nov 2550%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2231
Feb2828
Mar5331
Apr8818
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct956
Nov6230
Dec3431

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. Yozgat banks about 1,572 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr22
May158
Jun272
Jul381
Aug386
Sep254
Oct99
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.

Yozgat receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.0 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 23 to Sep 26. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.0 kWh/m² — roughly 73% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 57.5 kWhDec 172.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.4Moderate
Feb3.3Moderate
Mar4.5Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May6.5Intense
Jun7.1Intense
Jul7.4Intense
Aug6.8Intense
Sep5.3Bright
Oct3.8Moderate
Nov2.6Moderate
Dec2.0Dim

Where is Yozgat?

Yozgat sits at 39.8°N, 34.8°E, 1,290 m above sea level, in Turkey. The nearest listed city is Sorgun, 33 km away.

KırşehirAkdağmadeni

Topography around Yozgat

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Yozgat has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 465 m around an average of 1,400 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 790 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,293 m.

The land around Yozgat is covered by grassland (45%), artificial surfaces (23%) and trees (22%) within 3 km, grassland (48%) and cropland (40%) within 16 km, and cropland (57%) and grassland (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
465 m
16 km
790 m
80 km
1,293 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Sorgun 33 km · Yerköy 35 km · Alaca 39 km · Sungurlu 53 km · Çorum 82 km · Mucur 92 km · Kırşehir 93 km · Akdağmadeni 94 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 Yozgat (39.82°, 34.8044°, elevation 1,290 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).