How extreme does İskenderun's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days İskenderun has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 50+ years of daily weather observations (1973–present), from the Iskenderun station 2 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days İskenderun has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

104°F May 16, 1988

That is about 25°F hotter than a normal May afternoon in İskenderun (typical high near 79°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 104°F May 16, 1988

2 104°F Sep 14, 1994

3 104°F May 19, 2015

❄️ Coldest night

31°F Feb 22, 1983

About 18°F colder than a normal February night in İskenderun (typical low near 49°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 31°F Feb 22, 1983

2 31°F Jan 4, 1989

3 32°F Jan 23, 1973

🌧️ Most rain in one day

13.11 in Jul 22, 1992

More rain in a single day than İskenderun usually gets in the whole month of July (typical July total about 1.0 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 13.11 in Jul 22, 1992

2 11.81 in Oct 3, 1986

3 6.61 in Sep 9, 1992

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.

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İskenderun's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — May's 104°F is about 25°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

In a normal year, İskenderun's warmest days reach the low 90s°F and its coldest nights drop to the high 40s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 104°F and as low as 31°F. A single day has delivered over 13 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.

Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Iskenderun, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →

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