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Weather extremes
How extreme does Ankara's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Ankara has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Ankara has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 19°F hotter than a normal August afternoon in Ankara (typical high near 86°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 19°F colder than a normal January night in Ankara (typical low near 22°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Ankara usually gets in the whole month of January (typical January total about 1.8 in).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Ankara's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — August's 105°F is about 19°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
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.