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Antakya in March

Mild and damp, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

March in Antakya is mild: highs near 67°F, lows near 47°F. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 5 minutes from the first week to the last.March in Antakya is mild: highs near 19°C, lows near 8°C. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 5 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
67°F19°Caverage
Low
47°F8°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 40% of days
Daylight
11h 54mon average

Is March a good time to visit Antakya?

A good month, just outside Antakya's best months, which run in two parts: April to May, or November.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How March sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 67°F in March, against 59°F to 95°F through the year.Highs near 19°C in March, against 15°C to 35°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

40% of days in March, against 4% to 43% through the year.

Cloud cover

44% cover in March, against 4% to 51% through the year.

Daylight

11h 54m in March, against 9h 44m to 14h 35m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with March shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. February61°16°low 42°low 6°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. March67°19°low 47°low 8°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. April74°23°low 52°low 11°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Antakya sits, in March

Europe/Istanbul
this place
typical high in March 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-March
6:48 AMsets 6:42 PM
Above the sea
90 mlow-lying
Latitude
36.2°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Cappadocia (Göreme)296 km north-west

The land around Antakya, shaded by its typical high in March, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Turkey in March

high · low · wet days
See March on the planning mapThe whole year in Antakya

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Antakya. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (90 m) against the climate model's (214 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (90 m) against the climate model's (214 m). Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.