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Best time to visit
Messíni.

May leads for comfortable weather in Messíni: typically 22.9°C by day, 14.8°C at night, with 13 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high22.9°C

Typical low14.8°C

Rain in May13 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · June

96climate match

Beach

July

July · August · September

98climate match

Outdoors

April

April · May · March

95climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 43 against May’s 96 — days reach only 15°C, 9° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

4315° / 7.4°

Feb

4515° / 7.3°

Mar

5816.7° / 8.6°

Apr

7719.3° / 11°

May

9622.9° / 14.8°

Jun

8526.5° / 18.7°

Jul

7428.7° / 21°

Aug

6830° / 21.7°

Sep

8127.6° / 19.1°

Oct

9324.3° / 15.6°

Nov

6920.1° / 11.9°

Dec

4616.4° / 8.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Messíni — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 22 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	15°C	7.4°C	95 mm	8.7	16.4°C	9 h 52	43	Good coverage
February	15°C	7.3°C	76 mm	9.3	15.5°C	10 h 46	45	Good coverage
March	16.7°C	8.6°C	52 mm	7.1	15.5°C	11 h 51	58	Good coverage
April	19.3°C	11°C	34 mm	3.8	16.4°C	13 h 05	77	Good coverage
May	22.9°C	14.8°C	13 mm	2.7	18.8°C	14 h 08	96	Good coverage
June	26.5°C	18.7°C	6 mm	0.7	21.9°C	14 h 41	85	Good coverage
July	28.7°C	21°C	2 mm	0.3	24.8°C	14 h 28	74	Good coverage
August	30°C	21.7°C	3 mm	0.3	26.2°C	13 h 35	68	Good coverage
September	27.6°C	19.1°C	32 mm	2.8	25.3°C	12 h 22	81	Good coverage
October	24.3°C	15.6°C	57 mm	5.3	23.3°C	11 h 10	93	Good coverage
November	20.1°C	11.9°C	95 mm	8.2	20.9°C	10 h 08	69	Good coverage
December	16.4°C	8.9°C	115 mm	11.1	18.3°C	9 h 38	46	Good coverage

What has changed

Messíni runs +1.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+0.9

Feb

+1.2

Mar

+1.0

Apr

+1.8

May

+1.6

Jun

+1.6

Jul

+1.9

Aug

+2.4

Sep

+1.8

Oct

+1.4

Nov

+1.4

Dec

+1.0

May daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 23.2°C.

Records at METHONI, 1956–2023
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.4°C10 Jan 2021	-2.2°C14 Jan 1968	65 mm28 Jan 1991	240 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 2003	66
February	25.2°C17 Feb 2016	-5.6°C14 Feb 2004	73 mm26 Feb 2005	244 mm1956 · driest 0 mm in 2003	65
March	26.0°C27 Mar 2001	-2.8°C8 Mar 1987	51 mm28 Mar 1986	164 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 2003	67
April	29.9°C30 Apr 2021	1.0°C9 Apr 2003	41 mm6 Apr 1991	86 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 2003	68
May	34.7°C17 May 2020	7.0°C6 May 2006	62 mm21 May 1958	99 mm1957 · driest 0 mm in 2002	67
June	39.1°C19 Jun 2016	11.0°C6 Jun 1975	39 mm29 Jun 1992	58 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1984	67
July	39.2°C1 Jul 2021	12.6°C6 Jul 2009	19 mm28 Jul 2002	29 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 1964	68
August	39.8°C4 Aug 1998	15.6°C20 Aug 1984	29 mm22 Aug 1965	37 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1991	67
September	35.2°C16 Sep 2011	10.2°C30 Sep 1977	159 mm21 Sep 1986	181 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 1972	67
October	33.8°C1 Oct 1991	6.0°C28 Oct 1996	208 mm10 Oct 1963	522 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 2003	67
November	29.0°C1 Nov 2008	0.4°C5 Nov 2006	100 mm24 Nov 1979	296 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 2003	66
December	25.4°C8 Dec 1984	-1.0°C12 Dec 1991	73 mm11 Dec 1990	346 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2002	66

Typical days per month at METHONI, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	<1	3
February	0	0	<1	2
March	<1	0	0	1
April	<1	0	0	1
May	5	<1	0	<1
June	19	3	0	<1
July	29	8	0	0
August	29	14	0	<1
September	26	3	0	<1
October	12	<1	0	2
November	<1	0	0	2
December	0	0	<1	3

How often, not how much — every day in METHONI’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	<1%	39%	14%	50%	13.7–16.1°C
February	<1%	37%	10%	46%	13.6–16.4°C
March	5%	26%	7%	29%	14.9–17.8°C
April	23%	16%	4%	15%	17.5–20.2°C
May	77%	8%	1%	3%	21.0–23.6°C
June	97%	3%	<1%	<1%	24.6–27.5°C
July	99%	<1%	<1%	<1%	26.9–29.8°C
August	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	27.8–31.2°C
September	91%	9%	4%	6%	26.4–28.8°C
October	76%	22%	9%	27%	22.4–25.3°C
November	38%	32%	12%	44%	18.4–21.5°C
December	3%	41%	16%	54%	15.2–17.7°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1956Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 61-year average. Warmest: 2021. Coolest: 1991.2022

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 257152
NOAA station: GR000016734 · METHONI
Station distance: 36.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 18 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 37.05°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 22 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from METHONI is what differs

Kalamata→Gargaliánoi→Filiatrá→Kyparissía→Koróni→Mesopótamos→

Or put two places side by side: Messíni vs Kalamata

Best time to visitMessíni.

May

July

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Messíni runs +1.5°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Messíni.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Messíni runs +1.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.