Weather in Diyarbakır in February

A hard month. February is a hard month in Diyarbakır, and worth planning around. Highs sit at 10.1 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

February ranks 6 of 12 in Diyarbakır: past the worst of the year but short of October, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 10 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 10.1 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 16 nights fall below freezing. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 20.9 °C and the coldest night fell to -14.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 40 mm — roughly 57% of the month's rain in one day.

February is moderately variable: 6 mm in the driest year against 187 mm in the wettest, around an average of 70 mm. Roughly two Februarys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 5.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 77%, which at 10.1 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How February sits in the year

The month is on the way up: 2.7 °C warmer than January, and March adds another 5.4 °C. Late in the month feels noticeably different from the start of it, which is worth knowing if the trip is short.

Daylight in February

10.8 hours of daylight, gaining 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Diyarbakır's extremes of 14.8 and 9.6 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Diyarbakır has no sea to moderate it, and it shows: 42.5 °C separates the hottest afternoon of the year from the coldest night. That is a genuinely continental range, and it means summer and winter here are barely the same place.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

February in Diyarbakır versus nearby

If Diyarbakır is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Gaziantep is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Kayseri is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.1 °C cooler, 2 days less rain.

So: February is a compromise. October is 40 points better and is what Diyarbakır is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Diyarbakır

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