Ideal weather days in Athens
The best time to visit Athens for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 29 to 30 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Athens's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Athens, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold73
- Too hot72
- Too wet37
- Too windy10
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Athens averaged 195 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Greece, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and August to October (up to 21 a month, 112 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in March (up to 24 a month, 120 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 73 a year, mostly in December, January and February. Another 72 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in June, July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Athens weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17 °C 63 °F | 7 | 1 | 10 | 8 of 31 |
| February | 16 °C 61 °F | 5 | 0 | 8 | 9 of 28 |
| March | 19 °C 66 °F | 3 | 1 | 9 | 22 of 31 |
| April | 22 °C 72 °F | 5 | 1 | 9 | 23 of 30 |
| May | 26 °C 79 °F | 4 | 0 | 11 | 29 of 31 |
| June | 34 °C 93 °F | 2 | 0 | 12 | 11 of 30 |
| July | 37 °C 99 °F | 0 | 1 | 18 | 2 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 94 °F | 1 | 4 | 16 | 4 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 86 °F | 4 | 1 | 12 | 24 of 30 |
| October | 27 °C 81 °F | 1 | 0 | 16 | 30 of 31 |
| November | 21 °C 70 °F | 5 | 1 | 12 | 22 of 30 |
| December | 17 °C 63 °F | 7 | 1 | 9 | 11 of 31 |
| Year | 43 | 10 | 141 | 195 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 219 warm, dry days
- 2024 188 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Athens for good weather?
The best time to visit Athens for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 29 to 30 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June and August to October (up to 21 a month, 112 a year). Counted from measured days at Elefsis station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Athens?
On average 43 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was December (7 rain days), the driest July (0).
How many sunny days does Athens get a year?
About 141 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (18).
How warm does Athens get?
The median daily high ranged from 16 °C (61 °F) in February to 37 °C (99 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Izmir300 km, Türkiye158 days
- Thessaloniki300 km167 days
- Heraklion320 km207 days
- Sofia530 km, Bulgaria144 days
Where is the best climate in Greece?
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Source: Elefsis weather station (16718099999), 18 km from the centre of Athens, 44 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.