Sindos climate by month
What the weather is like
Sindos 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 20°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 10° and lows of 0°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 22°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 479 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. May is the wettest month (43 mm, 11 wet days) and August the driest (21 mm, 6 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 8% in July 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, Sindos is 0.1° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 35° · July
- Coldest nights
- 0° · January
- Wettest month
- May
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- July · 8% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 04 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 17 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 | 10° | 12° | 16° | 21° | 27° | 32° | 35° | 35° | 29° | 22° | 16° | 11° |
| Average low | 0° | 1° | 4° | 7° | 13° | 17° | 20° | 19° | 15° | 11° | 6° | 2° |
| Precipitation | 40 mm | 41 mm | 42 mm | 39 mm | 43 mm | 28 mm | 21 mm | 21 mm | 27 mm | 53 mm | 60 mm | 64 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.6 | 7.5 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 10.7 | 10.7 | 7.3 | 6 | 7.6 | 6.8 | 7.5 | 9.3 |
| Cloud cover | 39% | 38% | 36% | 31% | 25% | 14% | 8% | 8% | 17% | 31% | 39% | 42% |
| Sea temperature | 14° | 13° | 13° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 25° | 21° | 18° | 15° |
| Daylight | 9h 35 | 10h 39 | 11h 54 | 13h 17 | 14h 26 | 15h 04 | 14h 49 | 13h 49 | 12h 30 | 11h 10 | 9h 57 | 9h 17 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | – | – | ● | ● | ● | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Month score | 34 | 45 | 65 | 79 | 67 | 45 | 43 | 46 | 66 | 84 | 66 | 34 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent