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Thessaloniki weather

Central Macedonia · 317,778 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:13

Partly cloudy
16°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 16°C
Wind
10 km/h
Gusts
19 km/h
Humidity
59 %
Pressure
1018 hPa
Clouds
55 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:54 Set 17:29 Day 10 h 34 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ N 10 km/h
Gusts 19 km/h
Humidity 59 %
23:00
Partly cloudy
16°
N 8

Thessaloniki 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)
8°11°14°17°20°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed15°10°Thu 29 Oct: max 19° · min 16° · normal 14.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 15° · min 14° · normal 14.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 15° · min 13° · normal 13.9°Sun 1 Nov: max 15° · min 14° · normal 13.9°Mon 2 Nov: max 16° · min 15° · normal 13.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 16° · min 10° · normal 13.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 15° · min 10° · normal 13.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu8°13°18°16°9°06
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Thessaloniki climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 2 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 21 °C.

From 15 h 05 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 15 min in late December.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in July and August; the typical peak is 31 °C in August.

A normal year brings roughly 650 mm of rain — less than 79% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 16 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (21 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan8 °C2 °C56 mm
Feb11 °C4 °C52 mm
Mar14 °C6 °C63 mm
Apr18 °C11 °C54 mm
May23 °C15 °C60 mm
Jun28 °C20 °C40 mm
Jul31 °C22 °C36 mm
Aug31 °C22 °C35 mm
Sep26 °C18 °C48 mm
Oct21 °C13 °C62 mm
Nov15 °C8 °C66 mm
Dec10 °C4 °C76 mm
Whole year20 °C12 °C650 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 40.64° N, 22.93° 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 Thessaloniki: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1016µg/m³
O₃37µg/m³
NO₂9µg/m³
SO₂6µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Thessaloniki

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

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

Moon over Thessaloniki

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:28 Set 19:56
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 Thessaloniki

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

Thessaloniki weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia: 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 10 km/h.

Expected range today: 16 °C to 19 °C and a dry sky. 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.

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