Plagiari climate by month
What the weather is like
Plagiari has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 30° and nights 20°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 9° and lows of 2°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 20°.
About 603 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (82 mm, 9 wet days) and August the driest (24 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 7% in August to 42% in December.
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 Athens, the capital, Plagiari is 4.2° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · August
- Coldest nights
- 2° · January
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- August · 7% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 03 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 18 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 | 9° | 10° | 14° | 18° | 23° | 28° | 30° | 30° | 26° | 21° | 15° | 10° |
| Average low | 2° | 3° | 5° | 9° | 13° | 18° | 20° | 20° | 17° | 13° | 8° | 4° |
| Precipitation | 53 mm | 49 mm | 52 mm | 47 mm | 53 mm | 34 mm | 26 mm | 24 mm | 36 mm | 68 mm | 79 mm | 82 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.8 | 7.5 | 8.6 | 7.1 | 8.5 | 7.7 | 5 | 4.5 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 9.2 |
| Cloud cover | 38% | 37% | 35% | 31% | 25% | 14% | 8% | 7% | 16% | 31% | 38% | 42% |
| Sea temperature | 14° | 13° | 13° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 25° | 21° | 18° | 15° |
| Daylight | 9h 36 | 10h 40 | 11h 54 | 13h 16 | 14h 25 | 15h 03 | 14h 48 | 13h 48 | 12h 30 | 11h 11 | 9h 57 | 9h 18 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | – | ● | ● | ● | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 34 | 40 | 55 | 82 | 80 | 70 | 66 | 67 | 79 | 83 | 63 | 33 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent