Fire away Robert1971 anytime, You will feel like your on fire the first few days, Btw I drink Effes with my Breakfast most of the time if I make it up on time, And I hate the heat also.

You will feel the heat just getting off the plane, then it will hit you again going out of the terminal, thats if you got a day flight, it wil be cool n warm at night !!

Buy those small bottles of water in the departure lounge of your airport and take with you, as you will need these while waiting outside the airport for your transfer !!

temperatures are allways recorded in the shade , these so called phantom 60 degrees were probably recorded in the sun so are completely inaccurate , its always annoyed me when the reps claim its been 55 blah blah blah ,
ive been going last week in july/1st week august for the last 5 years and the hottest its ever been was 44 in the 2007 heatwave , i would say the average is normally 37ish

Simon m,

Just for the record the temp where is was entered into the turkish record books was in june 2007, and it was not from the so called reps... but from turkish tv and the resort manager of LYKIA WORLD ,,, maybe if you checked some records you would see that it was extremly hot that month not july !!

So keep your Blah Blah Blah to yourself

Simon

I totally agree with you and I take with a pinch of salt the temp entered into the turkish record books, its probably an unofficial temp taken under conditions that don't meet the standard for official temp taking. If the temps were as hot as people say they are then we would see a report on our tv as well. If turkey had 50c plus then kuwait, kuwait would be 70c and thats impossible. Gregg can you tell me how I can check the so called record of 2007. A temp can feel much hotter than it is or colder than it is depending on humidty levels.

I am sick of seeing its 55 today, it was over 50 today, total rubbish, end of june stick a thermometer in direct sun in this country and you can get it to reach 50c on a hot day. Recently I have heard about in the 30's recently but I have not seen anything recorded near that level this year, the best I have seen 27c 81f.

I was at lykia world in june 2007, and for 3 days it reached 53d, it was so hot and i mean hotter than normal that it was too hot to even walk around let alone lye under a shade near the pool, every one was in the pool byt it was too hot in there after 10- 15 minutes, most were heading for accomodation buildings for the air conditioning. it was on turkish tv in the evenings and we were told by the general manager of lykia world on the sunday that it had entered their record books.

I wish people who were not there at the time accept it and stop making out that people are making false claims.

this site is to help people going to turkey and at that time and in that year thats what happened, it may never happen again, but i hope it does,

phone lykia world if you need to get it set in stone.

Gregg can you tell me the dates of those 3 days I will look at recorded temps in turkey for the dates given.

Were the dates 23rd,24th and 25th June 2007, at dalaman airport the temps recored were 40c, 37c and 42c and 40c and 42c are the highest temps for the whole month, Antalya airport had slightly higher temps of 40c to 43c between 23rd to 29th June 2007.

hey
im going to turkey on the 30th of may for a week what kind of weather can we expect ?

Gregg,I was also in Turkey in June 2007.It was the only time I have been on holiday and had to sit in the shade all day,every day.
We stayed at the Club Turban in between Marmaris and Icmeler and fortunately the hotel is set amongst pine trees.
We were always being reminded by hotel staff to stay in the shade.The day we left we got delayed overnight and were put up in a hotel near the airport and that day was utterly unbearable.We were informed it was 49c in the shade.I think it was June 21st.

i'm sure it was around some dates like them in june 2007,
and all i know it was very hot, like i said we were told by people that lived there. that it was high, as we were also told to stay in the shade.
Am I bothered ? NO because it's always nice weather in turkey even when the its cool, you have the lovely sea views, mountains and pine trees around you. and a great place to be on holiday.

June 21st 38c 100f

From the 19th June to the 30th temp was 38c 100f to 42c 108f except a couple of days where the max was 35c 95f at dalaman airport. Somebody looks at a thermometer and it says 49c and around it goes.

Simon m is one of the few people on here who actually knows the temps brand about this thread are wrong.

cheers can't think of a username , here is a link
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/city?WEEK=04&MM=06&YY=2007&WMO=17295&LANG=en&SID=1729545c4507f0713d02f129976d23ce547cea&ART=MAX&CONT=euro&R=0&NOREGION=1&LEVEL=150&REGION=0005&LAND=TU
there it got above 40 just twice in that month
Gregg to say it was 53 for three days running is one of the funniest posts i've read on here for ages , it never has been ,fact .
sorry you have been misled like many others , but even 40+ would feel extremely hot though

Simon I used to a weather nerd but I still can't resist looking at pressure charts and weather history. Thanks for the link, I use the site for UK forecast a week, and for the sea temps but haven't used the history facility on the site before.

I agree Simon, I lived in Turkey and although I used to hear about it being 50c many times, the hottest it actually got was just over 40c. I used to monitor the temperature myself as my daughter was just a baby and I had a room thermometer. I know a lot of the locals even tell you it was 50c+ but they are exagerating, I use to watch the weather forecasts on tv too and it was never that ho

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/city?WEEK=02&MM=08&YY=2006&WMO=17290&LANG=en&SID=172904a30858a184ebb27e47f26af42d3d8fba&ART=MAX&CONT=euro&R=0&NOREGION=1&LEVEL=150&REGION=0005&LAND=TU

I was in Dalyan in June 2007 - there is a temperature thing not too far away from the town and someone said it was reading 47 when they passed it one of those days. If the official temperature is always taken in the shade then surely that's not the best indication for someone who is actually going to be there? Although as has been said are these things accurate?

Anyway, that week I spent most of it sitting in the paddling pool as it was too hot to lie in but I didn't want to be in the shade all the time (I know, terribly bad for you this tanning thing....).

Sandc

38c 100f in the strength of the sun in turkey it would be hard to sit in for long. I was in tunisia a june ages ago and when we got up we thought he air con wasn't working and then when we left the room it was hot, we were leaving that day and my feet where burning hot from the heat coming though the coach floor and through the bottom of my trainer, when we were in the terminal it was baking hot and the air con couldn't cope. When we walked out to the plane we felt like we had walked into a oven and it was noon. The next day I checked the temp in the paper at noon and it was 44c 111f and they had a maximum of 46c 115f, the captain of the plane said it was 46c but he was wrong by 2c.

The reason why the temp is taken in the shade depending how far north or south you are you would get wrong readings because it will depend on the stregnth of the sun, whereas the shade will not be dependant on the sun stregnth, and how are you going to take temps at night if it was dependant on the sun being out. Humidity will play lot into how hot you feel, high humidty will feel because your body won't able to cool itself with sweat evaporating which would happen in low humidity. So a temp of 42c might feel like 46c and 42c could feel like 38c and all depends on humidity.

Makes absolute sense can't think.

I know we have higher humidity here but we never get temperatures anywhere near that of Turkey/Greece at their hottest and yet when we do have a heatwave here it's really not bearable yet easily bearable abroad - it's probably mainly humidity but also shows that temperatures are being exaggerated doesn't it? I mean, we hear the same in the UK, so why was there such a furore when temps hit 100F was it 2006? Yet to hear some people it's that hot on any one of our 'heatwave' days that we occasionally get.

The temperatures shown were recorded at Dalaman airport which is a fair distance from Marmaris/Icmeler.
These resorts are surrounded by mountains and could it not be possible they were actually hotter than temps at the airport?
I always look on the BBC weather site here at home and the weather station is 35miles away inland which always show temperatures higher than what it is here on the coast,
All I know that on that holiday in 2007 I have never been anywhere in the world that was as hot,including Egypt,Singapore and the Seychelles.