Climate · Folegandros

Folegandros in January

Cool and damp, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

January in Folegandros is cool, around 55°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 24 minutes from the first week to the last.January in Folegandros is cool, around 13°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 24 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
55°F13°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 44% of days
Daylight
9h 58mon average

Is January a good time to visit Folegandros?


January sits outside Folegandros's best months, which run from June to September. Expect cool days and rain on about three days a week.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How January sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 55°F in January, against 55°F to 77°F through the year.Around 13°C in January, against 13°C to 25°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

44% of days in January, against 1% to 44% through the year.

Cloud cover

45% cover in January, against 2% to 46% through the year.

Daylight

9h 58m in January, against 9h 42m to 14h 37m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with January shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side


  1. December58°14°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. January55°13°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. February55°13°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Folegandros sits, in January

Europe/Athens

this place
typical high in January 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-January
7:32 AMsets 5:26 PM
Above the sea
110 mlow-lying
Latitude
36.6°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Andiparos48 km north

The land around Folegandros, shaded by its typical high in January, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Greece in January

typical · wet days

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Folegandros sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.