Average Sunshine in Greece for August

The tables below give August 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. The monthly averages are for weather data collected during 1961 to 1990.

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.

Aegean Islands

Proportion of sky that's without clouds in August

Place	% Clear Sky
Limnos	89
Milos	95
Mytilini	94
Naxos	94
Rhodes (Rodos)	96
Samos	96

Crete

Average amount of sun in August

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
360	Chania	91
346	Heraklion	91

Peloponnese

Average August sunshine

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
337	Kalamata	86
	Kythira	91
	Methoni	88
	Tripoli	79

Western Greece

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

Sunny weather in August

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
333	Kerkyra	84
	Patras	86
	Zakinthos	89

Central Greece

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

Average total sunshine in August

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
340	Athens	88
	Ioannina	76
320	Larissa	75
	Skyros	89

Northern Greece

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

Average August sunshine

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
	Alexandroupoli	79
296	Thessaloniki	74