Average Annual Precipitation in Greece

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

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

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
Reference

Helenic National Meteorological Service. Climatology.

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