Average Annual Precipitation for Turkey

The tables below give yearly averages for precipitation at cities in Turkey.

The cities are grouped for each region of the country: Marmara Region, Aegean Turkey, Mediterranean Turkey, Black Sea Turkey, Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia.

Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets a year and for the normal amount of rainfall. In a few locations, the precipitation also includes snowfall.

The annual amount of precipitation is an average of weather data collected during 1991 to 2020.

Marmara Region

Average yearly precipitation
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
108 Balikesir 20.6 524
120 Bursa 28.3 719
87 Çanakkale 24.4 620
112 Edirne 24.6 625
104 İstanbul 25.5 648
152 İzmit (Kocaeli) 33.5 850
140 Sakarya (Adapazari) 34.6 879

Aegean Turkey

The Aegean region of Turkey is a popular vacation destination. The resort towns of Bodrum, Marmaris and Fethiye are in the southern Aegean, near Mugla.

Annual rainfall averages
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
101 Afon (Afyonkarahisar) 17.8 451
80 Aydin 25.7 654
87 İzmir 28.8 731
83 Manisa 28.5 725
99 Muğla 45.9 1165

Mediterranean Turkey

Average amount of rain a year
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
72 Adana 26.8 681
84 Antalya 41.7 1059
87 Hatay (Antakya) 44.3 1124
76 Maras (Kahramanmaraş) 29.6 751
79 Mersin (İçel) 24.9 633

Black Sea Turkey

Average annual precipitation
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
132 Bolu 22.6 574
162 Ordu 42.0 1066
184 Rize 90.9 2310
157 Samsun 28.7 730
136 Sinop 28.7 728
121 Trabzon 35.5 902
152 Zonguldak 48.8 1239

Central Anatolia

Annual averages for rainfall plus snowfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
127 Ankara 16.3 414
Eskişehir 13.4 340
107 Kayseri 16.1 408
95 Konya 12.8 325
92 Nevşehir 16.5 418

Eastern Anatolia

Average amount of rain and snow a year
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
78 Elâzığ 15.9 404
133 Erzurum 15.6 396
115 Kars 20.9 530
91 Van 16.1 410

Southeastern Anatolia

Annual precipitation totals
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
94 Diyarbakır 19.6 498
91 Gaziantep 23.7 602
75 Mardin 24.0 610
77 Urfa (Şanlıurfa) 17.7 451
Reference

T.C. ÇEVRE, ŞEHİRCİLİK VE İKLİM DEĞİŞİKLİĞİ BAKANLIĞI. Meteoroloji Genel Müdürlüğü. Resmi İstatistikler. İllere Ait Mevsim Normalleri (1991-2020).

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