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Santorini (Thira) in May

Warm and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Santorini (Thira) is warm: highs near 70°F, lows near 62°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 44 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Santorini (Thira) is warm: highs near 21°C, lows near 17°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 44 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
70°F21°Caverage
Low
62°F17°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 6% of days
Daylight
14h 06mon average

Is May a good time to visit Santorini (Thira)?

A good month, just outside Santorini (Thira)'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

Highs near 70°F in May, against 58°F to 82°F through the year.Highs near 21°C in May, against 14°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

6% of days in May, against 0% to 41% through the year.

Cloud cover

28% cover in May, against 1% to 43% through the year.

Daylight

14h 06m in May, against 9h 43m to 14h 36m 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.

Either side

  1. April64°18°low 56°low 13°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  2. May70°21°low 62°low 17°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June77°25°low 69°low 21°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Santorini (Thira) sits, in May

Europe/Athens
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:12 AMsets 8:17 PM
Above the sea
190 mlow-lying
Latitude
36.4°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Folegandros52 km north-west

The land around Santorini (Thira), 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

high · low · wet days
See May on the planning mapThe whole year in Santorini (Thira)

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Santorini (Thira). Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (190 m) against the climate model's (23 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (190 m) against the climate model's (23 m). 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.