Average Sunshine in Greece for October

The tables below give October 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 October
Place % Clear Sky
Limnos 64
Milos 59
Mytilini 68
Naxos 64
Rhodes (Rodos) 70
Samos 69

Crete

Average amount of sun in October
Hours Place % Clear Sky
194 Chania 54
198 Heraklion 54

Peloponnese

Average October sunshine
Hours Place % Clear Sky
206 Kalamata 60
Kythira 59
Methoni 59
Tripoli 54

Western Greece

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

Sunny weather in October
Hours Place % Clear Sky
189 Kerkyra 58
Patras 61
Zakinthos 59

Central Greece

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

Average total sunshine in October
Hours Place % Clear Sky
208 Athens 58
Ioannina 58
172 Larissa 53
Skyros 56

Northern Greece

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

Average October sunshine
Hours Place % Clear Sky
Alexandroupoli 59
166 Thessaloniki 51
Reference

World Data Center for Meteorology. Climate of the World.

Greece Sunshine
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