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Ankara has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate.
Mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers — here's what that means in plain terms.
What this climate feels like
The four things a regular visitor actually wants to know:
Highs near 86°F in August. About 14 days a year above 90 °F.
Lows near 22°F in January. About 24 freezing nights a year.
About 17 in of rain a year. Wettest in March.
A roughly even mix of sun and cloud.
What "hot-summer Mediterranean" means
Climate scientists sort every place on Earth into about 30 climate types, based on how hot, cold, wet and dry it is across the year. Ankara's type — hot-summer mediterranean — sits in the broad family of mild, temperate climates.
Researchers write climate types as a short letter code. Here is what each letter means:
Cities with the same climate as Ankara
A hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa) — these recognizable cities share it. If you know one of them, you know roughly what to expect.
Ankara sits near a climate boundary
This city sits right on the line between hot-summer mediterranean and the next type along. Different climate maps file it on different sides of that line; the lived weather doesn't change at the line — it's a naming boundary, not a wall.
Has Ankara's climate type changed?
Stable — Ankara's climate has held the same type between the 1971–2000 and 1991–2020 normals. The label is steady; the climate beneath it is still warming.
What this climate means for you
Wine grapes, olives, citrus, figs and rosemary thrive. Summer-active gardens need drip irrigation; cool-season crops do well over winter.
Spring and autumn are the perfect window — warm, dry and clear without summer's heat. Summer is hot but rain-free.
Sunny summers, mild winters and an outdoor lifestyle. Wildfires are the dominant summer risk in many areas.
Where these numbers come from
The climate type and the month-by-month figures on this page are computed from Ankara's measured 30-year climate normals (1991–2020) — the same official records behind Ankara's main climate page, so the two always agree.
Long-range climate maps measure things slightly differently and can place a city in a neighbouring category. Where they differ, this page uses the measured station record as the climate today.
Methodology & sources
Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.
Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 5 years of daily observations at Ankara/central, a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.