Climate Turkish Coast Guard Samsun Air Base 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Samsun-Çarşamba Airport (LTFH) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	79.7	77	77	72	89	77
February	77.5	70	67	79	78	80
March	73.2	68	47	63	81	75
April	81.2		72	82	77	88
May	84.1		66	82	87	94
June	92.6		83	88	96	95
July	97.7		95	98	97	97
August	96.1		97	96	96	97
September	92.9		89	91	89	97
October	87.0		83	91	88	92
November	88.2		89	93	83	87
December	83.4		81	85	86	87
Average	84.9	71.3	79.1	85.5	87.9	89.6

52nd best VFR conditions of Türkiye

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	94.3	96	96	88	98	97
February	94.8	88	97	96	89	97
March	94.7	97	86	91	99	98
April	94.3		97	91	93	99
May	94.9		92	93	97	100
June	99.0		98	97	100	100
July	99.6		99	100	100	100
August	99.6		99	100	100	99
September	99.3		98	100	99	100
October	98.5		97	99	98	99
November	98.4		99	100	96	99
December	97.6		98	96	99	97
Average	96.7	93.9	96.2	96.0	97.4	98.7

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	11.7	12	14	10	14	11
February	12.6	15	11	13	13	12
March	13.4	15	14	9	12	15
April	16.9		17	19	17	15
May	21.0		19	20	22	23
June	25.4		24	25	24	26
July	27.8		29	27	28	28
August	28.3		30	29	29	27
September	25.4		25	27	23	27
October	21.7		23	21	19	25
November	18.0		21	18	18	16
December	15.1		17	17	15	16
Average	18.8	14.0	20.2	19.5	19.5	20.0

38th highest temperature of Türkiye

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	2.8	4	2	2	5	3
February	3.0	4	3	4	2	3
March	4.0	5	6	2	2	6
April	6.2		8	7	7	5
May	10.8		11	9	10	11
June	16.2		16	16	15	16
July	18.4		17	18	20	20
August	19.1		19	21	19	17
September	15.6		17	15	13	18
October	11.8		11	11	10	13
November	7.2		10	8	7	6
December	5.0		6	8	5	5
Average	9.1	4.1	10.5	10.1	9.5	10.0

35th lowest temperature of Türkiye

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	18.5	17	11	24	8	24
February	16.2	7	28	16	19	15
March	16.9	16	25	33	14	11
April	11.5		18	7	13	13
May	8.8		12	12	8	5
June	4.4		8	6	3	3
July	1.9		2	3	1	2
August	2.1		1	2	3	2
September	5.7		3	10	11	2
October	7.9		10	7	12	4
November	9.3		9	6	11	11
December	15.1		11	15	10	12
Average	9.9	13.4	11.0	10.9	8.8	7.8

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	6.6	7	5	8	7	7
February	7.0	6	8	7	8	9
March	6.6	6	7	9	6	7
April	6.0		6	6	7	7
May	5.6		6	6	6	7
June	5.5		7	6	5	6
July	6.7		6	8	8	7
August	6.9		6	6	6	7
September	6.4		7	6	7	6
October	5.1		5	5	6	5
November	5.5		8	5	5	6
December	5.7		5	5	7	5
Average	6.1	6.3	6.3	6.5	6.5	6.4

38th highest wind speed of Türkiye

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	239°	295°	258°	189°	296°
February	296°	274°	274°	297°	263°
March	358°	335°	316°	348°	346°
April		007°	345°	345°	355°
May		345°	333°	355°	357°
June		331°	335°	013°	358°
July		352°	328°	338°	344°
August		341°	345°	336°	342°
September		329°	354°	325°	355°
October		345°	327°	334°	056°
November		209°	231°	062°	321°
December		228°	192°	206°	181°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.