Greece Temperatures and Climate Review for Santorini & Skiathos
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | local info
The Greece climate is easily categorised in three main types. An alpine mediterranean climate can be found in the high mountains of the north of the country. Heavy snowfalls occur in bitter winters and summers are cool with regular thunderstorms. A continental, temperate mediterranean climate effects much of the mainland with greater daily and annual extremes of temperature than on the islands. Winters are cold with abundant frost and heavy snowfall especially on the high ground in the west. Summers are very hot with occasional thunderstorms. Finally a dry meditteranean climate effects the Islands and low lying coastal areas of the mainland. This is typifed by dry, hot summers with abundant sunshine with warm nights and cool winters with lengthy spells of rainfall. The average annual Greece temperature has a range of 14 to 30 degrees celcius with record temperatures of -28 to +47.8 degrees.
The winter Santorini temperature in December and January ranges between 9 and 16 degrees celcius on average. In the spring time temperatures in Santorini, Greece show average values of between 10 and 17 degrees of celcius in the month of March. In June the summer mean values for the Santorini climate increase to between 19 and 28 degrees celcius. By the autumn average temperatures fall to between 17 and 27 degrees in the months of September and October.
On the other hand Skiathos temperatures in the February winter month fall in the region of a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 14 degrees on average. After winter comes spring and the Skiathos climate warms with mean temperatures in April and May in the range of 12 to 23 degrees celcius. In July and August the summertime Skiathos temperature range is from an average low of 22 degrees to an average high of 30 degrees celcius. Average temperatures beging to fall in the autumn so that in November the Skiathos climate has records of mean temperatures of between 13 and 17 degrees low and high respectably.
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