Turkey's Climate

Turkey has seven distinct climatic regions

1.Marmara
The countryside around Istanbul, Edirne, Bursa and the Sea of Marmara. Marmara has low hills and farmlands good for fruit gardens (apricots, grapes, peaches) as well as vegetables, sunflowers and grain.

South of Bursa are higher mountains

2.Aegean
The Aegean region located on Izmir is a true breadbasket, with low hills and higher mountains full of rich alluvial soil. The faithful summer sun produces bumper crops of tobacco, sunflowers, olives, figs, peaches, pears and apples.
3.Mediterranean
Turkey's southern shore is around high mountain territory. There's little beach from Fethiye to Antalya

Not far east of Alanya the mountains come down to the sea ,all the way east to Antakya. It is keeping this coast very hot and humid in summer

4.Central Anatolia
The center of Turkey is high plateau around of mountain territory, some of which boast snow-cover dormant volcanoes.

The land produces summer and winter wheat and other crops, and feeds millions of grazing sheep.

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5.Black Sea Coast
Turkey's Black Sea coast, 1700 km/1000 miles long.It is very lush and green of annual rainfall dropped when the winds crossing the Black Sea .

It is cloudy all of the time, which is fine for the tobacco fields. Cherries originated here and growing in big amount the same with hazelnuts (filberts), of which Turkey supplies half the world's needs.

The lush grass feeds cattle which produce Turkey's best milk, cream and butter. The humid coast east of Trabzon is perfect for growing tea bushes.

6.Eastern Anatolia

Eastern Turkey is an elemental place where temperatures drop to -43C/-45F in deep winter, and rise to 38C/100F in summer, average is just 9C/48F.

June to September are the best months to visit unless you're going skiing at Palandöken just outside Erzurum.

7.Southeastern Anatolia

Down near Syria on the banks of the rivers Tigris (at Diyarbakir) and Euphrates (near Sanliurfa) it's hot most of the time:

It' is dry, with only 576 mm/23 inches of rainfall, but a lot of water from the gigantic Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP) irrigation and hydroelectric power system centered near Sanliurfa. Crops love the heat and grow fast. People go slow, and most of them in the shade. The best time to visit is anytime except summer (mid-June through mid-September).