Ideal weather days in Thessaloniki
The best time to visit Thessaloniki for warm, dry weather is September and October, with 24 to 29 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Thessaloniki's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in September 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 Thessaloniki, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold122
- Too wet55
- Too hot46
- Too windy23
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), Thessaloniki averaged 167 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, August and September (up to 23 a month, 110 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in March and October (up to 20 a month, 95 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 122 a year, mostly in December to March. Another 55 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to May and November to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Thessaloniki weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13 °C 55 °F | 6 | 4 | 9 | 1 of 31 |
| February | 13 °C 55 °F | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 of 28 |
| March | 17 °C 63 °F | 9 | 2 | 10 | 10 of 31 |
| April | 20 °C 68 °F | 7 | 3 | 10 | 19 of 30 |
| May | 25 °C 77 °F | 10 | 1 | 8 | 22 of 31 |
| June | 32 °C 90 °F | 3 | 1 | 19 | 19 of 30 |
| July | 35 °C 95 °F | 2 | 2 | 24 | 7 of 31 |
| August | 33 °C 91 °F | 3 | 1 | 15 | 14 of 31 |
| September | 29 °C 84 °F | 5 | 1 | 13 | 24 of 30 |
| October | 25 °C 77 °F | 2 | 1 | 16 | 29 of 31 |
| November | 18 °C 64 °F | 8 | 3 | 11 | 14 of 30 |
| December | 13 °C 55 °F | 9 | 4 | 9 | 2 of 31 |
| Year | 65 | 23 | 154 | 167 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 167 warm, dry days
- 2024 169 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Thessaloniki for good weather?
The best time to visit Thessaloniki for warm, dry weather is September and October, with 24 to 29 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in June, August and September (up to 23 a month, 110 a year). Counted from measured days at Makedonia station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Thessaloniki?
On average 65 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (10 rain days), the driest October (2).
How many sunny days does Thessaloniki get a year?
About 154 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 (24).
How warm does Thessaloniki get?
The median daily high ranged from 13 °C (55 °F) in January to 35 °C (95 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Sofia230 km, Bulgaria144 days
- Athens300 km195 days
- Izmir440 km, Türkiye158 days
- Bucharest490 km, Romania139 days
- Heraklion620 km207 days
Where is the best climate in Greece?
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Source: Makedonia weather station (16622099999), 14 km from the centre of Thessaloniki, 7 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.