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Antakya in May

Warm and mostly dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Antakya is warm: highs near 83°F, lows near 60°F. Rain falls on about one day a week, and the days lengthen by 44 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Antakya is warm: highs near 28°C, lows near 16°C. Rain falls on about one day a week, and the days lengthen by 44 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
83°F28°Caverage
Low
60°F16°Caverage
Wet days
1a week · 21% of days
Daylight
14h 05mon average

Is May a good time to visit Antakya?

Yes. May is one of Antakya's best months (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 May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 83°F in May, against 59°F to 95°F through the year.Highs near 28°C in May, against 15°C to 35°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

21% of days in May, against 4% to 43% through the year.

Cloud cover

29% cover in May, against 4% to 51% through the year.

Daylight

14h 05m in May, against 9h 44m to 14h 35m through the year.

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

Either side

  1. April74°23°low 52°low 11°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. May83°28°low 60°low 16°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  3. June89°32°low 67°low 19°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.

Where Antakya sits, in May

Europe/Istanbul
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:30 AMsets 7:33 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 May, 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 May

high · low · wet days
See May 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.