El Turkey climate It looks a lot like Spain. It is conditioned by the great extension of its territory.
Although it has warm temperate Mediterranean type climate, in Türkiye one of the main characteristics are the significant differences between the coasts and inland areas, both in temperatures and in rainfall.
There are three zones quite definite: Mediterranean, continental and Pontic.
La Mediterranean area, Marmara and Aegean, including the coastal areas of the west and south of the country, it has hot summers and mild winter temperatures, the average for the month of January is around 10ºC. Summers have quite high temperatures, for example Adana, which registers an average of 28ºC in July. Rainfall is medium, with records between 500-700 mm per year, with more presence in autumn and winter.
La anatolian plateau presents Continental weather, characterized by very harsh winters with snow, ice and temperatures that reach -20ºC. They have rains almost exclusively in winter of 500 mm, which by areas can drop to 300 mm per year. On the contrary, in summer temperatures are usually reached up to 40ºC with strong nocturnal drops and very little humidity.
The shores of the Black Sea do pontic type climate, whose main characteristic is the abundance of rainfall distributed throughout the year, with readings that can exceed 2.000 mm per year. The average temperatures observed in this region are markedly lower than in other Turkish coastal areas. Thus we will see that winters tend to be cold and the January averages are around 6ºC. To visit this region, it is best to do it between April and September.
El climate of the capital, Istanbul, Is cold wet winters with frequent snowfalls and concentration of rainfall in the winter months, and the hot dry summers, with averages of 27ºC. The best time to visit Istanbul is in autumn and spring, when temperatures are more moderate, although we may find some rain.
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