Best Time To Travel To: Turkey
Turkey is best known as a sun destination. It mostly belongs to a subtropical rain zone with hot dry summers. However, cold winds and even snow are also known around the Bosphorus. The Black Sea coast in the north is not very warm and has a lot of rainfall.
But the topic of winter is practically taboo on the coasts of the Aegean (except in the mountains). The areas on the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Marmara Sea have a warm Mediterranean climate with hot summers and mild winters. The Anatolian highlands also have extremely hot and dry summers, but also cold and snowy winters.
When is the best time to travel to Turkey?
The ideal travel time for Turkey and especially for the seaside resorts is of course the summer in the main travel phase between June and September. If you don't necessarily want to go to the country in the very high heat and the main season, spring and autumn should be ideal, specifically May and June or September and October are very interesting travel months for Turkey. It is warm then, but not like that oppressively hot and you save yourself the big crowd in many places.
Further information on areas / regions of Turkey:
Istanbul
The best travel time for Istanbul is generally mentioned from May to October. This is because the winters in Istanbul can be cold and snowy and therefore the transition times are not extremely warm. In midsummer it is usually not that hot - but it can also get hot and especially humid in Istanbul.
Turkish riviera
Experience shows that the best travel time for the Turkish Riviera with Antalya, Side or Kemer is between May and June and September to November. Then it is still very warm and you can swim well. July and August are already very hot months and they are also the main season. Therefore, these two months are only conditionally advisable.
Mediterranean coast, Izmir
It doesn't get quite as warm on the southwest Mediterranean coast around Izmir. The water here takes much longer to warm up. From May it will be nice and warm and sunny. The water temperatures rise slowly and reach their peak around September with an average of 23 ° C. Overall, May to October can be called a good travel time. But if you want to swim, you shouldn't come before July.
Ankara
For the area around Ankara things look a little different again. Ankara is relatively high at over 800 meters. This is noticeable climatically. Winters are cool to cold. Spring and late autumn can also be cool. It gets really warm here, especially from June to September, when it doesn't rain very much. May and October can still be attractive here, although you have to expect some rain, especially in May
