Average Sunshine in Greece for January

The tables below give January averages for the amount of clear sky at cities and islands in Greece. A few places, also have numbers for the total hours of sunshine.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Aegean Islands, Crete, Peloponnese, as well as Western, Central and Northern Greece.

The monthly averages are for weather data collected during 1961 to 1990.

Aegean Islands

Proportion of sky that's without clouds in January

Place	% Clear Sky
Limnos	40
Milos	35
Mytilini	43
Naxos	39
Rhodes (Rodos)	45
Samos	43

Crete

Average amount of sun in January

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
117	Chania	33
116	Heraklion	34

Peloponnese

Average January sunshine

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
144	Kalamata	43
	Kythira	39
	Methoni	40
	Tripoli	36

Western Greece

These weather data are for places in the Ionian Islands and Western Hellas peripheries.

Sunny weather in January

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
118	Kerkyra	44
	Patras	46
	Zakinthos	40

Central Greece

The cities listed here are in the Attica, Epirus, Sterea Hellas and Thessaly peripheries.

Average total sunshine in January

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
129	Athens	40
	Ioannina	43
105	Larissa	38
	Skyros	31

Northern Greece

This section covers the peripheries of West, East Macedonia and Thrace.

Average January sunshine

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
	Alexandroupoli	35
99	Thessaloniki	39