Ideal weather days in Heraklion
The best time to visit Heraklion for warm, dry weather is April to June and August to November, with 19 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Heraklion's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April to June and August to November.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Heraklion, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too windy105
- Too cold61
- Too wet35
- Too hot6
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), Heraklion averaged 207 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 July and August (up to 25 a month, 100 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May, November and December (up to 11 a month, 71 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h): 105 a year, mostly in January to March and June to August. Another 61 are too cold (a high under 18 °C), mostly in January and February. A day can fail more than one test.
Heraklion weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18 °C 64 °F | 6 | 8 | 6 | 10 of 31 |
| February | 16 °C 61 °F | 8 | 11 | 4 | 7 of 28 |
| March | 18 °C 64 °F | 5 | 9 | 8 | 14 of 31 |
| April | 20 °C 68 °F | 4 | 7 | 10 | 19 of 30 |
| May | 23 °C 73 °F | 4 | 8 | 11 | 23 of 31 |
| June | 28 °C 82 °F | 1 | 8 | 22 | 19 of 30 |
| July | 31 °C 88 °F | 0 | 14 | 27 | 15 of 31 |
| August | 30 °C 86 °F | 0 | 8 | 22 | 22 of 31 |
| September | 28 °C 82 °F | 2 | 7 | 10 | 22 of 30 |
| October | 25 °C 77 °F | 0 | 9 | 9 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 22 °C 72 °F | 4 | 8 | 5 | 20 of 30 |
| December | 19 °C 66 °F | 10 | 7 | 5 | 14 of 31 |
| Year | 43 | 105 | 139 | 207 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 209 warm, dry days
- 2024 203 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Heraklion for good weather?
The best time to visit Heraklion for warm, dry weather is April to June and August to November, with 19 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July and August (up to 25 a month, 100 a year). Counted from measured days at Nikos Kazantzakis station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Heraklion?
On average 43 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was December (10 rain days), the driest July (0).
How many sunny days does Heraklion get a year?
About 139 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 (27).
How warm does Heraklion get?
The median daily high ranged from 16 °C (61 °F) in February to 31 °C (88 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Athens320 km195 days
- Izmir390 km, Türkiye158 days
- Thessaloniki620 km167 days
- Istanbul710 km, Türkiye128 days
- Nicosia750 km, Cyprus189 days
Where is the best climate in Greece?
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Source: Nikos Kazantzakis weather station (16754099999), 5 km from the centre of Heraklion, 35 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.