Ideal weather days in Ankara
The best time to visit Ankara for warm, dry weather is May, September and October, with 21 to 26 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Ankara's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May, September and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Ankara, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold153
- Too wet54
- Too hot48
- Too windy2
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Ankara averaged 144 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Türkiye, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June, July and August (up to 19 a month, 78 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in October (up to 22 a month, 86 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 153 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 54 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in April to May and November to December. A day can fail more than one test.
Ankara weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10 °C 50 °F | 7 | 0 | 9 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 9 °C 48 °F | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 of 28 |
| March | 15 °C 59 °F | 6 | 0 | 5 | 8 of 31 |
| April | 19 °C 66 °F | 8 | 0 | 5 | 16 of 30 |
| May | 23 °C 73 °F | 10 | 0 | 4 | 21 of 31 |
| June | 30 °C 86 °F | 5 | 0 | 11 | 19 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 93 °F | 1 | 0 | 11 | 13 of 31 |
| August | 34 °C 93 °F | 2 | 0 | 14 | 9 of 31 |
| September | 29 °C 84 °F | 4 | 0 | 7 | 26 of 30 |
| October | 23 °C 73 °F | 1 | 0 | 11 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 15 °C 59 °F | 9 | 1 | 3 | 7 of 30 |
| December | 10 °C 50 °F | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 66 | 2 | 90 | 144 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 146 warm, dry days
- 2024 134 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Ankara for good weather?
The best time to visit Ankara for warm, dry weather is May, September and October, with 21 to 26 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June, July and August (up to 19 a month, 78 a year). Counted from measured days at Etimesgut station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Ankara?
On average 66 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (10 rain days), the driest July (1).
How many sunny days does Ankara get a year?
About 90 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in August (14).
How warm does Ankara get?
The median daily high ranged from 9 °C (48 °F) in February to 34 °C (93 °F) in July.
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Source: Etimesgut weather station (17129099999), 15 km from the centre of Ankara, 809 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.