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Sitia climate by month
What the weather is like
Sitia has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 26° and nights 25°. February is the coolest month, with highs of 15° and lows of 12°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 12°.
About 451 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (97 mm, 16 wet days) and July the driest (0 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 0% in July to 30% in December.
The sea reaches about 25° 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, Sitia is 8.5° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 26° · August
- Coldest nights
- 12° · February
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 0% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 25° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 31 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 48 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 | 15° | 15° | 15° | 17° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 22° | 19° | 17° |
| Average low | 13° | 12° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 17° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 97 mm | 74 mm | 45 mm | 24 mm | 9 mm | 2 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 12 mm | 38 mm | 61 mm | 88 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 16 | 14.2 | 9.3 | 6.8 | 5.1 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 4.5 | 9.4 | 10.6 | 15.5 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 27% | 23% | 20% | 14% | 3% | 0% | 1% | 4% | 14% | 25% | 30% |
| Sea temperature | 16° | 16° | 16° | 17° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 18° |
| Daylight | 10h 02 | 10h 55 | 11h 56 | 13h 04 | 14h 00 | 14h 31 | 14h 19 | 13h 30 | 12h 26 | 11h 20 | 10h 20 | 9h 48 |
| Saharan dust haze | – | ● | ● | ●● | ●● | ● | – | – | – | ● | – | – |
| Month score | 51 | 49 | 63 | 78 | 88 | 95 | 95 | 94 | 89 | 78 | 75 | 59 |
Dust haze, monthly average 2015–2024: ● occasional, ●● frequent, ●●● very frequent