Climate averages 1991–2020
Athens weather
in July.
A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Athens: daytime highs average 32.8°C and nights cool to about 22.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 6.4 mm of rain on roughly 1 day, which makes July a very dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 31 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Khalándrion (8 km away). In July its highs average 32.4°C, about as warm as Athens, with 6.4 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Greece, Athens ranks joint 2nd of 11 for the warmest July highs and joint 3rd of 11 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 11 cities is 31.9°C; Athens is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 32.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 6.4 mm to 4.4 mm.
The annual picture
July in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Athens climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.9°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 52 | 7.3 | 9.910 h |
| February | 12.9°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 47 | 7.2 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.8°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 49 | 6.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.9°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 29 | 5.4 | 13.213 h |
| May | 25.4°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 23 | 4.9 | 14.214 h |
| June | 30.5°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 11 | 2.5 | 14.815 h |
| July, selected | 32.8°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 6.4 | 1.3 | 14.515 h |
| August | 32.6°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 4.4 | 1.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 28.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 15 | 2.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.1°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 27 | 3.8 | 11.211 h |
| November | 17.6°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 45 | 6.6 | 10.210 h |
| December | 13.2°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 58 | 7.8 | 9.610 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
July in nearby cities
- Khalándrion in JulyGreece · 8 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 21.6°C · 6.4 mm rain
- Piraeus in JulyGreece · 9 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 6.4 mm rain
- Acharnés in JulyGreece · 11 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 21.2°C · 6.4 mm rain
- Glyfáda in JulyGreece · 14 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 23.2°C · 1.6 mm rain
- Volos in JulyGreece · 168 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 26 mm rain
- Pátra in JulyGreece · 177 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 20.4°C · 13 mm rain
- Lárisa in JulyGreece · 215 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 21.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Ayvalık in JulyTurkey · 297 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 22.4°C · 0.6 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Athens) is explained once on the Athens year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Piraeus, Acharnés and Khalándrion lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.