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Athens weather

Attica · 664,046 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:43

Partly cloudy
16°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 16°C
Wind
2 km/h
Gusts
5 km/h
Humidity
83 %
Pressure
1017 hPa
Clouds
56 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:47 Set 17:30 Day 10 h 42 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
16°14°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ NE 4 km/h
Humidity 83 %
20:00
Partly cloudy
16°
E 2
23:00
Partly cloudy
14°
NE 4

Athens forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
9°12°16°19°22°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed19°11°Thu 29 Oct: max 18° · min 13° · normal 17.8°Fri 30 Oct: max 19° · min 13° · normal 17.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 18° · min 12° · normal 17.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 18° · min 14° · normal 17.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 19° · min 16° · normal 17.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 20° · min 13° · normal 17.2°Wed 4 Nov: max 19° · min 11° · normal 17.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu10°16°21°20°11°05
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Athens climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 390 mm of rain — less than 91% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from June to August; the typical peak is 33 °C in July.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 33 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 5 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 19 °C.

From 14 h 48 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 31 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 19 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (24 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan12 °C5 °C56 mm
Feb14 °C6 °C51 mm
Mar17 °C8 °C52 mm
Apr20 °C11 °C31 mm
May26 °C15 °C25 mm
Jun31 °C20 °C12 mm
Jul33 °C22 °C7 mm
Aug33 °C22 °C5 mm
Sep29 °C19 °C17 mm
Oct24 °C15 °C29 mm
Nov18 °C11 °C48 mm
Dec14 °C7 °C62 mm
Whole year23 °C13 °C390 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.98° N, 23.73° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Athens: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.59µg/m³
PM1012µg/m³
O₃26µg/m³
NO₂27µg/m³
SO₂6µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Athens

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Athens, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Athens yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Athens

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:36 Set 19:43
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Athens); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Athens

Curious about the weather in Athens on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Athens weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Athens, Attica: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 13 °C to 18 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Athens weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations