Samos climate by month
What the weather is like
Samos has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 29° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 14°.
About 913 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (178 mm, 12 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in July to 32% in December.
The sea reaches about 24° 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, Samos is 5.8° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 29° · August
- Coldest nights
- 9° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 1% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 24° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 46 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 34 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° | 16° | 18° | 22° | 26° | 28° | 29° | 25° | 22° | 19° | 16° |
| Average low | 9° | 10° | 11° | 14° | 17° | 21° | 23° | 23° | 20° | 17° | 14° | 11° |
| Precipitation | 178 mm | 124 mm | 90 mm | 54 mm | 36 mm | 2 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 12 mm | 51 mm | 151 mm | 214 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 12.2 | 10.6 | 8.3 | 7.2 | 6.6 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 5.2 | 7.7 | 11.8 |
| Cloud cover | 30% | 30% | 26% | 24% | 16% | 5% | 1% | 1% | 5% | 17% | 27% | 32% |
| Sea temperature | 17° | 16° | 16° | 17° | 19° | 22° | 23° | 24° | 23° | 21° | 19° | 18° |
| Daylight | 9h 50 | 10h 48 | 11h 55 | 13h 09 | 14h 12 | 14h 46 | 14h 32 | 13h 39 | 12h 28 | 11h 16 | 10h 10 | 9h 34 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | ● | ●● | ●● | ● | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 51 | 58 | 71 | 83 | 84 | 88 | 84 | 82 | 92 | 88 | 82 | 60 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent