Yahyalı climate — normals and trends
Yahyalı (Republic of Türkiye) has a warm-summer mediterranean continental climate (Dsb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 8.3 °C and it receives 622 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 (20.1 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-3.6 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.
Yahyalı averages 124 frost days, 5 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 107 rainy days per year.
Yahyalı has warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.24 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 136 to 112 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 34.8 °C (on 30 July 2000) and the coldest -25.7 °C (on 15 January 1950).
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
YahyalıKayseri
- coords
- 38.10°, 35.36°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
8.3°C
Average daily high
13.4°C
Average daily low
3.6°C
Annual rainfall
622mm
Sunshine / day
10.7h
Mean relative humidity
64%
Average peak wind
10.3km/h
Seasonal range
23.7°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
124 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
5 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
107 d/yr
Annual snowfall
194.0 cm
Average feels-like high
11.3 °C
Average feels-like low
0.8 °C
Average peak gust
33.2 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
18.4 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+2.1 °C
since 1940
+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.35 · 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
34.8 °C
30 July 2000
Coldest day
-25.7 °C
15 January 1950
Wettest day
65 mm
18 October 1985
Windiest day
30.8 km/h
23 April 2001
Strongest gust
99.4 km/h
17 December 2003
Hottest feels-like
36.6 °C
29 July 2000
Coldest feels-like
-30.0 °C
15 January 1950
Snowiest day
40.5 cm
26 January 1984
Sunniest day
14.3 h
25 June 2025
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 5.6 °C | +5.5 °C | 14 mm | -60 mm |
| Feb | -1.3 °C | -2.6 °C | 77 mm | +15 mm |
| Mar | 9.6 °C | +4.1 °C | 55 mm | -15 mm |
| Apr | 11.1 °C | -0.8 °C | 98 mm | +24 mm |
| May | 18.4 °C | +1.4 °C | 122 mm | +38 mm |
| Jun | 22.4 °C | +1.0 °C | 25 mm | -23 mm |
| Jul | 28.2 °C | +2.7 °C | 6 mm | -5 mm |
| Aug | 28.5 °C | +2.3 °C | 9 mm | +0 mm |
| Sep | 23.1 °C | +0.7 °C | 13 mm | -8 mm |
| Oct | 17.4 °C | +0.9 °C | 15 mm | -21 mm |
| Nov | 14.2 °C | +4.5 °C | 37 mm | -19 mm |
| Dec | 4.5 °C | +1.6 °C | 72 mm | -6 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Yahyalı?
Yahyalı has a warm-summer mediterranean continental climate (Köppen Dsb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 8.3 °C and it receives 622 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Yahyalı?
The hottest day measured in Yahyalı between 1940 and 2025 was 30 July 2000, reaching 34.8 °C.
What is the coldest day in Yahyalı?
The coldest day measured in Yahyalı between 1940 and 2025 was 15 January 1950, at -25.7 °C.
Does it snow in Yahyalı?
Yes. Yahyalı gets on average 194.0 cm of snow per year and has around 124 frost days.
Has the climate of Yahyalı warmed?
Yes: Yahyalı warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Yahyalı?
The wettest day measured in Yahyalı between 1940 and 2025 was 18 October 1985, with 65 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Yahyalı?
The windiest day measured in Yahyalı between 1940 and 2025 was 23 April 2001, with winds reaching 30.8 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Yahyalı?
The warmest month in Yahyalı is August (20.1 °C on average); the coldest is January (-3.6 °C).
How much does it rain in Yahyalı?
Yahyalı receives on average 622 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 107 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Yahyalı?
Yahyalı gets on average 10.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,905 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Yahyalı?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Yahyalı between 1940 and 2025 was 26 January 1984, with 40.5 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Yahyalı?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Yahyalı.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Yahyalı?
In Yahyalı, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 36.6 °C on 29 July 2000, and the lowest was -30.0 °C on 15 January 1950.
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