Cappadocia Goreme House Hotel

Climate in Cappadocia

Weather Forecast for Cappadocia and Central Anatolia

The climate of Capadoccia is continental : summers are hot and sunny but the altitude provides cool nights. At winter time, climate is cold and the fairy chimneys are totally metamorphosed when covered with snow.

Geographically located in the center of the country, Cappadocia is a mountain area that was created from a series of volcanic eruptions. Capadoccia is famous for his " fairy chimneys ", sort of strange shaped rocks (tuff rocks ) sculpted by the erosion work. Thereby, this natural exception allowed Capadoccia to be member of the UNESCO world patrimony.

Although Turkey is situated in large Mediterranean geographical location where climatic conditions are quite temperate, diverse nature of the landscape, and the existence in particular of the mountains that run paralel to the coasts, result in significant differences in climatic conditions from one region to the other. While the coastal areas enjoy milder climates, the inland Anatolian plateau experiences extremes of hot summers and cold winters with limited rainfall.

Turkey's diverse regions have different climates because of irregular topography. Taurus Mountains is close to the coast and rain clouds cannot penetrate to the interior part of the country. Rain clouds drops most of their water on the coastal area. As rain clouds pass over the mountains and reach central Anatolia they have no significant capability to produce of rain. In the Eastern region of Anatolia, the elevation of mountains exceeds 2500-3000 m. Northern Black Sea Mountains and Caucasian Mountain hold the rain clouds, and therefor the area is affected by the continental climate with long and very cold winter. Minimum temperatures of -30ｰC to -38ｰC are observed in the mountainous areas in the east, and snow may lie on the ground 120 days of the year. Winters are bitterly cold with frequent, heavy snowfall. Villages in thee region remain isolated for several days during winter storms.

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