Weather in Ioánnina in October

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, October is the one. Highs average 21.2 °C, lows 11.9 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 4 of 12 in Ioánnina: past the worst of the year but short of May, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 9 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average October reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 31.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 1.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 58 mm — roughly 52% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 20 mm in the driest year against 281 mm in the wettest, around an average of 111 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 6.2 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 72%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.5 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 5.6 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

11.2 hours of daylight, losing 1.3 hours across the month. That is between Ioánnina's extremes of 15 and 9.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 30.3 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

October in Ioánnina versus nearby

If Ioánnina is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Lárisa is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.6 °C warmer, 2 days less rain. Pátra is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.7 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: October is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind May, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

Every month in Ioánnina

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