During the summer months, air temperature can go up to 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), highest recorded temperature in Istanbul was 45 degrees (113 Fahrenheit). During winter months, the temperature is around 10 degrees (50 Fahrenheit) with much colder nights, lowest recorded temperature was -15 degrees (5 Fahrenheit). We occasionally get some snow.![]()
Don't forget that Besiktas occasionally moved to middle and eastern Turkey for away games where the weather sometimes gets worse than England so that weather argument is nonsense.