Average Rainfall for Greece in December

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during December 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 this month and for the usual amount of precipitation. The numbers are averages of weather data collected over several decades.

Aegean Islands

Average monthly precipitation in December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
12 Limnos 3.3 84
9 Milos 3.6 90
14 Mytilini 5.6 143
13 Naxos 2.8 70
15 Rhodes (Rodos) 6.2 157
14 Samos 6.5 164

Crete

December averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
14 Chania 3.6 91
15 Heraklion 3.1 78
12 Ierapetra 4.3 109
15 Rethymno 2.7 68
13 Sitia 3.5 89
12 Tympaki 4.1 104

Peloponnese

Average amount of rain in December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
6 Astros 3.4 85
12 Kalamata 6.0 153
14 Kythira 4.6 118
13 Methoni 5.6 142
13 Pyrgela 2.9 74
16 Tripoli 5.3 136
9 Velo 2.2 57

Western Greece

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

Precipitation totals for December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
16 Agrinio 6.3 160
16 Araxos 4.9 124
14 Argostoli 5.2 132
18 Kerkyra 7.3 186
13 Patras 4.6 116
13 Pyrgos 6.4 162
13 Zakinthos 6.7 170

Central Greece

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

Total precipitation during December
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
12 Aliartos 3.9 99
13 Arta 7.4 188
14 Athens 2.5 64
12 Elefsina 2.7 68
15 Ioannina 6.9 175
13 Lamia 2.9 73
13 Larissa 2.0 51
12 Nea Filadelfia 2.7 69
13 Skyros 3.2 81
13 Tanagra 3.2 81
13 Tatoi 3.3 84
11 Volos 2.4 61

Northern Greece

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

Average December rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
13 Alexandroupoli 3.3 85
13 Florina 3.4 86
9 Kavala 2.1 53
12 Kozani 2.0 52
9 Serres 1.9 48
13 Thessaloniki 2.2 55
9 Trikala 2.7 69
Reference

Helenic National Meteorological Service. Climatology.

Greece Precipitation
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