CLIMATE

Turkey is located in the south of the temperate zone. The influence of the Mediterranean subtropical climate provides in general for the dry and hot summer. However, the climatic conditions in the various regions:

The Mediterranean region

At the southern Turkish coast is a typical Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and mild and rainy winters. The pleasant water temperatures allow, from early May until the end of October in the Mediterranean to swim. The provinces of Burdur and Isparta in the Taurus Mountains lie in the climatic transition zone between coastal region and inland areas.

The Aegean region

In the coastal region has a Mediterranean climate, while inland increasingly rauhere continental climate dominated. Bathing season is from June to September.

The Marmara region

With a little more humid summers than in the Mediterranean region is the bathing season on the Marmara Sea in the months of June, July and August. The cold winter provide much frost and even snow.

The Black Sea region

The every season niederschlagsreiche Black Sea region is divided into three climatic zones: During the East (Trabzon and Rize), with hot summers and mild winters the largest rainfall which, it rains in the central Black Sea Region (Ordu) less, the climate is similar to the Mediterranean region. In the west (Zonguldak and Sinop) relatively little it rains, the humidity is low. Bathing season is from late June until mid-August.

Central Anatolia

The summers are milder than the Mediterranean and the winter cold. Spring and fall are the niederschlagsreichsten seasons.

Eastern Anatolia

The continental climate of this region provides for long and snowy winter, the summer temperatures are lower than in Southeast Anatolia.

Southeastern Anatolia

In south-eastern Anatolia is a steppe climate with hot summers and dry, every year drought likely to bring.