Árgos climate by month
What the weather is like
Árgos has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 35° and nights 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 5°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 19°.
About 431 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (62 mm, 12 wet days) and August the driest (13 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 4% in August to 42% in December.
The sea reaches about 26° 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 Athens, the capital, Árgos is 0.4° warmer on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 35° · July
- Coldest nights
- 5° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- August · 4% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 26° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 45 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 35 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 | 14° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 27° | 33° | 35° | 35° | 31° | 25° | 20° | 15° |
| Average low | 5° | 6° | 7° | 10° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 22° | 19° | 14° | 10° | 7° |
| Precipitation | 62 mm | 50 mm | 44 mm | 32 mm | 21 mm | 11 mm | 10 mm | 13 mm | 21 mm | 40 mm | 69 mm | 58 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 11.6 | 10.2 | 8.1 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 3 | 2.4 | 6 | 6.5 | 8.5 | 10.6 |
| Cloud cover | 39% | 37% | 34% | 27% | 21% | 8% | 5% | 4% | 12% | 26% | 37% | 42% |
| Sea temperature | 16° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 21° | 18° |
| Daylight | 9h 51 | 10h 48 | 11h 55 | 13h 09 | 14h 11 | 14h 45 | 14h 31 | 13h 38 | 12h 28 | 11h 16 | 10h 10 | 9h 35 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | ● | ●● | ●● | ● | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 48 | 58 | 79 | 86 | 78 | 56 | 51 | 53 | 63 | 84 | 77 | 55 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent