Average Sunshine in Greece for May

The tables below give May 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 May

Place	% Clear Sky
Limnos	64
Milos	69
Mytilini	64
Naxos	66
Rhodes (Rodos)	66
Samos	65

Crete

Average amount of sun in May

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
305	Chania	63
301	Heraklion	63

Peloponnese

Average May sunshine

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
286	Kalamata	61
	Kythira	61
	Methoni	61
	Tripoli	53

Western Greece

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

Sunny weather in May

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
277	Kerkyra	58
	Patras	63
	Zakinthos	64

Central Greece

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

Average total sunshine in May

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
291	Athens	58
	Ioannina	50
266	Larissa	50
	Skyros	63

Northern Greece

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

Average May sunshine

Hours	Place	% Clear Sky
	Alexandroupoli	51
253	Thessaloniki	49