United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Athens.

May leads for comfortable weather in Athens: typically 25.9°C by day, 12.6°C at night, with 116 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high25.9°C

Typical low12.6°C

Rain in May116 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · September

72climate match

Beach

August

August · June · July

70climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 72 — days reach only 9.1°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -2.1°C.

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

59.1° / -2.1°

Feb

1111.6° / -0.6°

Mar

3116.4° / 2.9°

Apr

5921.8° / 7.4°

May

7225.9° / 12.6°

Jun

5829.6° / 17.4°

Jul

4731.2° / 19.6°

Aug

5531.1° / 19°

Sep

6828.3° / 15.5°

Oct

7222.5° / 8.4°

Nov

3416° / 2.3°

Dec

610.8° / -0.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Athens — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.1°C	-2.1°C	141 mm	10.2	10 h 00	5	Strong coverage
February	11.6°C	-0.6°C	129 mm	10.1	10 h 51	11	Strong coverage
March	16.4°C	2.9°C	140 mm	10.9	11 h 52	31	Strong coverage
April	21.8°C	7.4°C	140 mm	9.4	13 h 02	59	Strong coverage
May	25.9°C	12.6°C	116 mm	9.4	14 h 01	72	Strong coverage
June	29.6°C	17.4°C	128 mm	9.7	14 h 32	58	Strong coverage
July	31.2°C	19.6°C	138 mm	10.4	14 h 20	47	Strong coverage
August	31.1°C	19°C	102 mm	8.6	13 h 29	55	Strong coverage
September	28.3°C	15.5°C	132 mm	7.2	12 h 21	68	Strong coverage
October	22.5°C	8.4°C	91 mm	6.8	11 h 14	72	Strong coverage
November	16°C	2.3°C	124 mm	8.2	10 h 15	34	Strong coverage
December	10.8°C	-0.4°C	150 mm	10.4	9 h 46	6	Strong coverage

What has changed

Athens runs +0.9°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

+1.1

Feb

+2.3

Mar

+1.2

Apr

+0.5

May

+0.5

Jun

+0.4

Jul

+0.4

Aug

+0.2

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+1.1

Nov

+0.6

Dec

+2.0

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.7°C.

Records at ATHENS, 1962–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.0°C2 Jan 2022	-26.7°C21 Jan 1985	100 mm7 Jan 2009	308 mm2013 · driest 37 mm in 1981	63
February	27.2°C24 Feb 2018	-25.6°C1 Feb 1966	98 mm6 Feb 2020	327 mm2020 · driest 12 mm in 1968	64
March	29.4°C23 Mar 2026	-16.7°C3 Mar 1980	139 mm16 Mar 1973	368 mm1973 · driest 45 mm in 1985	65
April	32.8°C29 Apr 1986	-5.6°C1 Apr 1987	125 mm16 Apr 1994	305 mm1994 · driest 34 mm in 1976	65
May	35.0°C20 May 1962	-1.7°C4 May 1971	206 mm6 May 2003	409 mm2003 · driest 13 mm in 2007	65
June	39.4°C30 Jun 2012	2.2°C1 Jun 1966	91 mm9 Jun 1996	312 mm1989 · driest 24 mm in 1988	65
July	40.6°C17 Jul 1980	8.9°C15 Jul 1967	102 mm6 Jul 1967	328 mm1967 · driest 30 mm in 1985	63
August	39.4°C23 Aug 2007	8.9°C13 Aug 1964	112 mm7 Aug 1987	242 mm2021 · driest 4 mm in 1962	63
September	37.2°C14 Sep 2019	-1.7°C30 Sep 1967	226 mm6 Sep 2011	366 mm1977 · driest 5 mm in 2019	64
October	36.7°C3 Oct 2019	-5.0°C27 Oct 1962	89 mm27 Oct 2010	191 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 1963	64
November	30.0°C1 Nov 2016	-12.8°C24 Nov 1970	86 mm9 Nov 1962	229 mm2011 · driest 20 mm in 2021	64
December	25.0°C27 Dec 2015	-20.0°C13 Dec 1962	96 mm26 Dec 2015	281 mm2015 · driest 23 mm in 1965	63

Typical days per month at ATHENS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	21	5	<1
February	<1	0	17	4	<1
March	3	0	11	5	<1
April	10	<1	3	4	0
May	20	6	0	4	0
June	28	16	0	4	0
July	31	22	0	4	0
August	30	22	0	3	0
September	25	11	0	3	0
October	11	1	2	3	0
November	1	<1	13	4	<1
December	0	0	19	5	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 76); on 2011–2025 it is October (79). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in ATHENS’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	2%	34%	15%	42%	5.2–12.1°C
February	6%	34%	15%	46%	7.7–13.9°C
March	24%	34%	15%	43%	13.5–19.2°C
April	48%	31%	15%	37%	19.3–24.0°C
May	64%	31%	12%	39%	23.7–28.1°C
June	70%	30%	13%	36%	28.0–31.5°C
July	66%	34%	14%	43%	29.6–33.0°C
August	73%	27%	12%	30%	29.4–32.8°C
September	74%	25%	12%	26%	26.1–30.2°C
October	58%	22%	9%	21%	20.2–24.4°C
November	21%	28%	13%	32%	13.1–18.7°C
December	3%	33%	15%	43%	7.7–13.6°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.

1963Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 60-year average. Warmest: 2019. Coolest: 1966.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4603284
NOAA station: USC00400284 · ATHENS
Station distance: 1.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.44°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

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May

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Athens runs +0.9°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Athens.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Athens runs +0.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.