Average Sunshine a Year in Greece
The tables below give annual 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 yearly averages are for weather data collected during 1961 to 1990.
Aegean Islands
Place | % Clear Sky |
---|---|
Limnos | 61 |
Milos | 63 |
Mytilini | 64 |
Naxos | 64 |
Rhodes (Rodos) | 68 |
Samos | 65 |
Crete
Hours | Place | % Clear Sky |
---|---|---|
2790 | Chania | 59 |
2760 | Heraklion | 59 |
Peloponnese
Hours | Place | % Clear Sky |
---|---|---|
2658 | Kalamata | 60 |
Kythira | 60 | |
Methoni | 60 | |
Tripoli | 54 |
Western Greece
These weather data are for places in the Ionian Islands and Western Hellas peripheries.
Hours | Place | % Clear Sky |
---|---|---|
2546 | Kerkyra | 59 |
Patras | 61 | |
Zakinthos | 61 |
Central Greece
The cities listed here are in the Attica, Epirus, Sterea Hellas and Thessaly peripheries.
Hours | Place | % Clear Sky |
---|---|---|
2771 | Athens | 58 |
Ioannina | 54 | |
2471 | Larissa | 53 |
Skyros | 58 |
Northern Greece
This section covers the peripheries of West, East Macedonia and Thrace.
Hours | Place | % Clear Sky |
---|---|---|
Alexandroupoli | 54 | |
2338 | Thessaloniki | 51 |
Reference
World Data Center for Meteorology. Climate of the World.