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Elazığ 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 36°C in August. About 71 days a year above 32 °C.
Lows near −5°C in January. About 73 freezing nights a year.
About 389 mm of rain a year. Wettest in April.
More sun than cloud through the year.
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. Elazığ'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 Elazığ
A hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa) — these recognizable cities share it. If you know one of them, you know roughly what to expect.
Elazığ 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 Elazığ's climate type changed?
A climate type is a coarse bucket. It can hold steady for years while the weather inside it shifts — or tip into the next bucket.
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 Elazığ's measured 30-year climate normals (1991–2020) — the same official records behind Elazığ'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 & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at Elazig, a weather station, about 10 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.