Climate · Folegandros

Folegandros in May

Mild and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Folegandros is mild, around 65°F through the day and night. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 44 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Folegandros is mild, around 18°C through the day and night. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 44 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
65°F18°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 7% of days
Daylight
14h 07mon average

Is May a good time to visit Folegandros?


A good month, just outside Folegandros's best months, which run from June to September.

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 May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 65°F in May, against 55°F to 77°F through the year.Around 18°C in May, against 13°C to 25°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

7% of days in May, against 1% to 44% through the year.

Cloud cover

30% cover in May, against 2% to 46% through the year.

Daylight

14h 07m in May, against 9h 42m to 14h 37m through the year.

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

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  1. April60°16°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  2. May65°18°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June73°23°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Folegandros sits, in May

Europe/Athens

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:14 AMsets 8:19 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 May, 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 May

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.