Weather in Firá in December

Shoulder season. December sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. Highs sit at 14.5 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

December ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Firá's year. June is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 47 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 13 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 14.5 °C the difference between a good day and a miserable one is entirely down to what you are wearing.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: the day barely swings — 1.9 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 19.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 30 mm — roughly 34% of the month's rain in one day.

December is moderately variable: 10 mm in the driest year against 159 mm in the wettest, around an average of 87 mm. Roughly two Decembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 21.4 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 76%, which at 14.5 °C means damp rather than muggy — the kind of cold that gets into a coat and stays there.

How December sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 17.4 °C in November, 14.5 here, 13.1 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Firá's year — 9.7 hours of daylight against 14.6 at midsummer, holding steady all month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 14.5 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

December in Firá versus nearby

If Firá is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Chaniá is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days more rain. Athens is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain.

So: December is a compromise. June is 41 points better and is what Firá is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Firá

See all twelve months in Firá, or where else to go in December.