Sarıkamış climate — normals and trends
Sarıkamış (Republic of Türkiye) has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 4.2 °C and it receives 727 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is August (16.2 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-9.1 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.
Sarıkamış averages 177 frost days, 1 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 138 rainy days per year.
Sarıkamış has warmed by +2.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.28 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 189 to 165 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 33.2 °C (on 15 August 2019) and the coldest -35.6 °C (on 28 December 1948).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
Climate normals · ERA5
SarıkamışKars Province
- coords
- 40.33°, 42.59°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
4.2°C
Average daily high
9.8°C
Average daily low
-0.9°C
Annual rainfall
727mm
Sunshine / day
9.9h
Mean relative humidity
72%
Average peak wind
10.9km/h
Seasonal range
25.3°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
177 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
1 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
138 d/yr
Annual snowfall
184.2 cm
Average feels-like high
7.4 °C
Average feels-like low
-4.0 °C
Average peak gust
31.5 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
17.1 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+2.3 °C
since 1940
+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.37 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
Hottest day
33.2 °C
15 August 2019
Coldest day
-35.6 °C
28 December 1948
Wettest day
45 mm
19 May 1984
Windiest day
33.3 km/h
24 December 2023
Strongest gust
101.2 km/h
15 March 2010
Hottest feels-like
32.4 °C
30 July 2000
Coldest feels-like
-40.5 °C
28 December 1948
Snowiest day
25.8 cm
18 February 1990
Sunniest day
14.3 h
5 July 1941
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | -1.3 °C | +3.3 °C | 11 mm | -26 mm |
| Feb | -4.2 °C | -1.7 °C | 47 mm | +3 mm |
| Mar | 6.0 °C | +4.0 °C | 77 mm | +10 mm |
| Apr | 10.1 °C | +1.5 °C | 174 mm | +79 mm |
| May | 17.2 °C | +2.7 °C | 140 mm | +11 mm |
| Jun | 19.9 °C | +1.0 °C | 45 mm | -48 mm |
| Jul | 24.7 °C | +2.1 °C | 61 mm | +2 mm |
| Aug | 28.7 °C | +5.4 °C | 9 mm | -35 mm |
| Sep | 20.7 °C | +1.2 °C | 30 mm | -2 mm |
| Oct | 14.6 °C | +2.0 °C | 46 mm | -5 mm |
| Nov | 10.2 °C | +5.3 °C | 11 mm | -30 mm |
| Dec | 0.4 °C | +2.5 °C | 58 mm | +22 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Sarıkamış?
Sarıkamış has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 4.2 °C and it receives 727 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Sarıkamış?
The hottest day measured in Sarıkamış between 1940 and 2025 was 15 August 2019, reaching 33.2 °C.
What is the coldest day in Sarıkamış?
The coldest day measured in Sarıkamış between 1940 and 2025 was 28 December 1948, at -35.6 °C.
Does it snow in Sarıkamış?
Yes. Sarıkamış gets on average 184.2 cm of snow per year and has around 177 frost days.
Has the climate of Sarıkamış warmed?
Yes: Sarıkamış warmed by +2.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Sarıkamış?
The wettest day measured in Sarıkamış between 1940 and 2025 was 19 May 1984, with 45 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Sarıkamış?
The windiest day measured in Sarıkamış between 1940 and 2025 was 24 December 2023, with winds reaching 33.3 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Sarıkamış?
The warmest month in Sarıkamış is August (16.2 °C on average); the coldest is January (-9.1 °C).
How much does it rain in Sarıkamış?
Sarıkamış receives on average 727 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 138 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Sarıkamış?
Sarıkamış gets on average 9.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,614 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Sarıkamış?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Sarıkamış between 1940 and 2025 was 18 February 1990, with 25.8 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Sarıkamış?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Sarıkamış.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Sarıkamış?
In Sarıkamış, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 32.4 °C on 30 July 2000, and the lowest was -40.5 °C on 28 December 1948.
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