Gallipoli

Climate

Climate	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Daily highs °C	8	9	11	16	21	26	28	29	25	19	14	11
Nightly lows °C	3	4	5	9	13	17	20	20	16	12	8	6

Average temperature values in nearby Çanakkale are as in the list to the right.

Understand

Gallipoli is an elongated around 40-50 km from its one end to another peninsula stretching southwest from Thracian mainland, between the Bay of Saros an indentation of Aegean Sea and the Straits of Dardanelles. The peninsula is named after a town Gelibolu on its northeastern tip, near where it connects to the rest of the mainland. The battles took place in scattered locations around its southwestern end, where the peninsula fronts the Aegean Sea on a coastline full of cliffs.

It was this geographical location—at the entrance of the Dardanelles, and thus on the supply route to Russia via the Sea of Marmara, Bosphorus, and the Black Sea—why the Gallipoli Campaign was planned in the first place.

In addition to the battlesites, there is plenty of pleasant vistas to be enjoyed in the peninsula, including pine forests, views over the sea from hilltops, and beautiful oliveyards along the roadsides.