LESBOS
Climate and Weather
Climate and Weather
Popular destinations GREECE
| Aegina | Alonissos | Andros |
| Chios | Corfu | Crete |
| Hydra | Kalymnos | Karpathos |
| Kefalonia | Kos | Lefkas |
| Lesbos | Mykonos | Naxos |
| Paros | Patmos | Peloponnese |
| Poros | Rhodes | Samos |
| Santorini | Skiathos | Skopelos |
| Spetses | Thasos | Zakynthos |
Climate and Weather
Lesbos has a Mediterranean climate with warm dry summers and mild but wet winters. In the summer, the temperatures quickly reach values between 30 and 35°C. When the hot sirocco wind blows from the east, it easily reaches 40 °C or even higher. The average daytime temperature in January is 12°C, in July it is 31°C. The average annual temperature is 18.3°C.
The average annual rainfall on Lesbos is 620 mm, distributed over approximately 80 rainy days. Most rain falls in the winter months of December and January.
Lesbos is a very sunny island with about 3040 hours of sunshine per year.
The most sun of course is in the summer months of June, July and August. In Lesbos, the Meltemi, which blows from the north, blows regularly, a breeze that sometimes provides much-needed, pleasant cooling. Lesvos has been known since ancient times for the so-called "alkyonid days", warm sunny days in the middle of winter.
| avg. max.temp. | hours sun p/d dag | rainy days p/m | |
| january | 11°C | 5 | 12 |
| february | 11°C | 5 | 10 |
| march | 13°C | 7 | 9 |
| april | 18°C | 8 | 8 |
| may | 22°C | 10 | 4 |
| june | 27°C | 13 | 3 |
| july | 31°C | 14 | 1 |
| august | 30°C | 13 | 1 |
| september | 26°C | 11 | 3 |
| october | 20°C | 8 | 6 |
| november | 16°C | 5 | 9 |
| december | 13°C | 4 | 12 |
Sources
Dubin, Marc S. / Griekse eilanden
Van Reemst
Greek islands
Lonely Planet
Griekse eilanden
Lannoo
McGilchrist, Nigel / Greece : the Aegean islands
Somerset Books
Midgette, Anne / Griekse eilanden : Egeïsche Zee
Het Spectrum
CIA - World Factbook
BBC - Country Profiles
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