Average Precipitation for Turkey in March

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during March at cities in Turkey. Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets this month and for the normal amount of precipitation.

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.

The month's total precipitation is an average of weather data collected during 1991 to 2020.

Marmara Region

Average monthly precipitation in March
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
13	Balikesir	2.6	65
13	Bursa	2.9	75
10	Çanakkale	2.6	66
12	Edirne	2.1	53
12	İstanbul	2.4	61
16	İzmit (Kocaeli)	3.1	78
14	Sakarya (Adapazari)	3.0	76

Aegean Turkey

March averages for total rainfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
11	Afon (Afyonkarahisar)	1.8	45
10	Aydin	2.8	71
10	İzmir	3.1	78
10	Manisa	3.0	76
11	Muğla	4.7	120

Mediterranean Turkey

Average amount of rain in March
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
9	Adana	2.3	59
10	Antalya	3.7	95
11	Hatay (Antakya)	5.7	145
10	Maras (Kahramanmaraş)	3.8	96
9	Mersin (İçel)	2.2	56

Black Sea Turkey

Rainfall totals for March
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
13	Bolu	2.2	56
17	Ordu	3.4	87
17	Rize	6.1	154
17	Samsun	2.7	69
14	Sinop	2.4	60
11	Trabzon	2.7	69
16	Zonguldak	3.8	96

Central Anatolia

Total precipitation during March
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
14	Ankara	1.8	47
–	Eskişehir	1.1	29
13	Kayseri	2.0	50
10	Konya	1.1	27
10	Nevşehir	1.9	48

Eastern Anatoli

March precipitation averages
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
10	Elâzığ	2.0	51
12	Erzurum	1.4	35
8	Kars	1.3	33
11	Van	1.9	49

Southeastern Anatolia

Total precipitation averages for March
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
13	Diyarbakır	2.7	68
12	Gaziantep	2.7	69
10	Mardin	3.3	84
10	Urfa (Şanlıurfa)	2.3	58