Average Sunshine in Greece for March

The tables below give March 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 March
Place % Clear Sky
Limnos 48
Milos 45
Mytilini 48
Naxos 48
Rhodes (Rodos) 51
Samos 50

Crete

Average amount of sun in March
Hours Place % Clear Sky
178 Chania 43
178 Heraklion 43

Peloponnese

Average March sunshine
Hours Place % Clear Sky
186 Kalamata 46
Kythira 45
Methoni 48
Tripoli 41

Western Greece

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

Sunny weather in March
Hours Place % Clear Sky
116 Kerkyra 45
Patras 49
Zakinthos 46

Central Greece

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

Average total sunshine in March
Hours Place % Clear Sky
183 Athens 44
Ioannina 43
158 Larissa 40
Skyros 41

Northern Greece

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

Average March sunshine
Hours Place % Clear Sky
Alexandroupoli 40
147 Thessaloniki 39
Reference

World Data Center for Meteorology. Climate of the World.

Greece Sunshine
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