Average Yearly Precipitation in Greece

The tables below give yearly averages for rainfall at cities and islands in Greece.

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.

Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it typically gets annually and for the usual amount of precipitation. The numbers are averages of weather data collected over several decades.

Aegean Islands

Average yearly precipitation
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
83	Limnos	19.2	487
46	Milos	16.2	411
88	Mytilini	25.5	648
72	Naxos	14.4	366
86	Rhodes (Rodos)	27.7	703
73	Samos	27.9	709

Crete

Annual averages for rainfall plus snowfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
85	Chania	24.5	622
92	Heraklion	19.0	483
65	Ierapetra	26.1	662
86	Rethymno	30.6	777
73	Sitia	18.8	479
58	Tympaki	18.9	479

Peloponnese

Average amount of rain and snow a year
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
39	Astros	19.3	491
77	Kalamata	30.7	780
79	Kythira	21.2	539
72	Methoni	27.8	707
91	Pyrgela	18.9	481
117	Tripoli	30.7	781
73	Velo	16.1	410

Western Greece

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

Average annual precipitation
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
112	Agrinio	36.7	931
100	Araxos	27.1	688
96	Argostoli	32.3	820
129	Kerkyra	43.2	1097
86	Patras	26.1	663
88	Pyrgos	36.3	921
79	Zakinthos	37.1	943

Central Greece

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

Annual precipitation totals
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
92	Aliartos	22.9	583
98	Arta	42.7	1085
98	Athens	14.4	365
87	Elefsina	14.7	373
124	Ioannina	42.6	1082
110	Lamia	22.6	574
117	Larissa	16.7	423
87	Nea Filadelfia	16.3	414
79	Skyros	16.8	426
94	Tanagra	18.2	462
82	Tatoi	17.7	451
80	Volos	19.7	500

Northern Greece

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

Average annual rainfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
103	Alexandroupoli	21.8	553
116	Florina	25.4	646
91	Kavala	15.9	403
108	Kozani	20.0	508
91	Serres	17.7	449
114	Thessaloniki	17.7	449
87	Trikala	19.9	506

Average Annual Precipitation in Greece