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Greece, month by month

Where in Greece is at its best each month, and where to skip. Each verdict comes from the place's stated best season and the closures, weather warnings and festivals Tourisma has for it: in the middle of the season is a great month, its first or last month a good one; a weather warning (monsoon seas, smoke) moves a month down, a closure (a park shut, the boats stopped) moves it down to mixed at most, and a shut place is better avoided.

Greece in January

Plan January

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Agios Nikolaos & Elounda, Ancient Olympia, Athens, Chania (Balos & Elafonissi), Corfu, Delphi, Heraklion (Knossos), Hydra, Kefalonia, Kos, Meteora (Kalambaka), Monemvasia, Nafplio (Mycenae & Epidaurus), Naxos, Paros, Rhodes, Santorini, Thessaloniki, Zagori & Ioannina, Zakynthos.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Epiphany: the Blessing of the Waters

Greece in February

Plan February

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Agios Nikolaos & Elounda, Ancient Olympia, Athens, Chania (Balos & Elafonissi), Corfu, Delphi, Heraklion (Knossos), Hydra, Kefalonia, Kos, Meteora (Kalambaka), Monemvasia, Nafplio (Mycenae & Epidaurus), Naxos, Paros, Rhodes, Santorini, Thessaloniki, Zagori & Ioannina, Zakynthos.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Clean Monday and the end of Carnival (dates shift yearly)

Greece in March

Plan March

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Agios Nikolaos & Elounda, Ancient Olympia, Athens, Chania (Balos & Elafonissi), Corfu, Delphi, Heraklion (Knossos), Hydra, Kefalonia, Kos, Meteora (Kalambaka), Monemvasia, Nafplio (Mycenae & Epidaurus), Naxos, Paros, Rhodes, Santorini, Thessaloniki, Zagori & Ioannina, Zakynthos.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Clean Monday and the end of Carnival (dates shift yearly)

Greece in April

Plan April

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Agios Nikolaos & Elounda, Chania (Balos & Elafonissi), Corfu, Hydra, Kefalonia, Kos, Milos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Zagori & Ioannina, Zakynthos.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Orthodox Easter (Pascha) (dates shift yearly)

Greece in May

Plan May

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Halkidiki.

Can fall this month

  • Orthodox Easter (Pascha) (dates shift yearly)

Greece in June

Plan June

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Athens.

Can fall this month

  • Athens Epidaurus Festival

Greece in July

Plan July

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Hydra, Meteora (Kalambaka), Thessaloniki, Zagori & Ioannina.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Athens Epidaurus Festival

Greece in August

Plan August

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Hydra, Meteora (Kalambaka), Thessaloniki, Zagori & Ioannina.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Athens Epidaurus Festival
  • St Spyridon processions
  • Dekapentavgoustos (the Assumption)

Greece in September

Plan September

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Ancient Olympia, Athens, Chania (Balos & Elafonissi), Corfu, Delphi, Halkidiki, Heraklion (Knossos), Kefalonia, Monemvasia, Nafplio (Mycenae & Epidaurus), Rhodes, Zakynthos.

Greece in October

Plan October

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Halkidiki, Mykonos.

Can fall this month

  • St Demetrius and Ochi Day

Greece in November

Plan November

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Agios Nikolaos & Elounda, Ancient Olympia, Athens, Chania (Balos & Elafonissi), Corfu, Delphi, Heraklion (Knossos), Hydra, Kefalonia, Kos, Meteora (Kalambaka), Monemvasia, Nafplio (Mycenae & Epidaurus), Naxos, Paros, Rhodes, Santorini, Thessaloniki, Zagori & Ioannina, Zakynthos.

Better avoided

Can fall this month

  • Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Greece in December

Plan December

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Agios Nikolaos & Elounda, Ancient Olympia, Athens, Chania (Balos & Elafonissi), Corfu, Delphi, Heraklion (Knossos), Hydra, Kefalonia, Kos, Meteora (Kalambaka), Monemvasia, Nafplio (Mycenae & Epidaurus), Naxos, Paros, Rhodes, Santorini, Thessaloniki, Zagori & Ioannina, Zakynthos.

Better avoided

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