Ideal weather days in Izmir
The best time to visit Izmir for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 26 to 30 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Izmir's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May 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 Izmir, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold85
- Too hot84
- Too wet49
- Too windy31
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), Izmir averaged 158 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 August, September and October (up to 23 a month, 108 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in March, April and November (up to 13 a month, 71 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 85 a year, mostly in December, January and February. Another 84 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in June, July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Izmir weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16 °C 60 °F | 8 | 4 | 8 | 5 of 31 |
| February | 15 °C 58 °F | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 of 28 |
| March | 19 °C 66 °F | 7 | 3 | 9 | 15 of 31 |
| April | 23 °C 73 °F | 6 | 1 | 9 | 21 of 30 |
| May | 27 °C 80 °F | 4 | 1 | 9 | 26 of 31 |
| June | 35 °C 94 °F | 2 | 4 | 14 | 8 of 30 |
| July | 37 °C 99 °F | 0 | 3 | 22 | 1 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 95 °F | 0 | 4 | 19 | 4 of 31 |
| September | 32 °C 90 °F | 2 | 2 | 12 | 19 of 30 |
| October | 27 °C 81 °F | 1 | 0 | 17 | 30 of 31 |
| November | 21 °C 69 °F | 11 | 4 | 9 | 17 of 30 |
| December | 17 °C 62 °F | 12 | 3 | 6 | 5 of 31 |
| Year | 57 | 31 | 142 | 158 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 167 warm, dry days
- 2024 160 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Izmir for good weather?
The best time to visit Izmir for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 26 to 30 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in August, September and October (up to 23 a month, 108 a year). Counted from measured days at Cigli station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Izmir?
On average 57 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was December (12 rain days), the driest August (0).
How many sunny days does Izmir get a year?
About 142 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 July (22).
How warm does Izmir get?
The median daily high ranged from 15 °C (58 °F) in February to 37 °C (99 °F) in July.
Nearby
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Where is the best climate in Türkiye?
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Source: Cigli weather station (17218099999), 15 km from the centre of Izmir, 5 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.