Average Sunshine a Year in Greece

The tables below give annual 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 yearly averages are for weather data collected during 1961 to 1990.

Aegean Islands

Proportion of sky that's without clouds

Place	% Clear Sky
Limnos	61
Milos	63
Mytilini	64
Naxos	64
Rhodes (Rodos)	68
Samos	65

Crete

Average amount of sunshine a year

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
2790	Chania	59
2760	Heraklion	59

Peloponnese

Annual average sun

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
2658	Kalamata	60
	Kythira	60
	Methoni	60
	Tripoli	54

Western Greece

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

Average sunny weather

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
2546	Kerkyra	59
	Patras	61
	Zakinthos	61

Central Greece

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

Total average sunshine yearly

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
2771	Athens	58
	Ioannina	54
2471	Larissa	53
	Skyros	58

Northern Greece

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

Average annual sunshine

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
	Alexandroupoli	54
2338	Thessaloniki	51