Kolossi climate by month
What the weather is like
Kolossi has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 33° and nights 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 8°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 483 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (106 mm, 12 wet days) and August the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in July to 25% in January.
The sea reaches about 27° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Nicosia, the capital, Kolossi is 4.4° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 33° · August
- Coldest nights
- 8° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- July · 1% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 28 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 51 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 17° | 17° | 19° | 23° | 27° | 30° | 33° | 33° | 31° | 28° | 23° | 19° |
| Average low | 8° | 8° | 9° | 12° | 16° | 19° | 22° | 22° | 20° | 17° | 13° | 9° |
| Precipitation | 106 mm | 86 mm | 52 mm | 22 mm | 12 mm | 5 mm | 2 mm | 2 mm | 4 mm | 22 mm | 65 mm | 105 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 11.9 | 9.1 | 5.8 | 4.1 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0 | 1.7 | 4.5 | 6.5 | 11.3 |
| Cloud cover | 25% | 24% | 21% | 19% | 11% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 10% | 20% | 25% |
| Sea temperature | 18° | 17° | 17° | 18° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 22° | 20° |
| Daylight | 10h 05 | 10h 56 | 11h 56 | 13h 02 | 13h 58 | 14h 28 | 14h 16 | 13h 29 | 12h 25 | 11h 21 | 10h 22 | 9h 51 |
| Month score | 66 | 73 | 86 | 90 | 87 | 77 | 68 | 67 | 71 | 77 | 85 | 73 |