Welcome to Istanbul, Turkey!
While Ankara might be the county's capital, Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey with over 13 million people. It is located in the northwestern Marmara Region right on the coasts of the Black and Marmara Seas.
These seas have a huge impact on the city's climate and we will get to that in a blog or two. For now, here is a basic run down of Istanbul's weather and climate.
Sattelite photo of Istanbul and the Bosporus that connects
the Black Sea and Marmara Sea.
Source: NASA Earth Observatory
Istanbul can be categorized as a Temperate Mediterranean climate on Köppen climate classification. This means they have distinct seasonability but nothing to extreme in the way of weather. Below is a chart of the average temperatures, precipitation, and other interesting statistics.
Source: http://www.istanbul.climatetemp.info/
So as the chart shows, Istanbul has a pretty wide annual range. The average temperatures go from just over 5˚C in the winter all the way to about 24˚C in the summer months. Also evident on the graph is the fact that almost all of the precipitation occurs during the spring months of April, May, and June. The highest average is just about 7cm, which is about 3in of rainfall, in May.
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