Weather in Pátra in October

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, October is the one. Highs average 24.9 °C, lows 15.1 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 3 of 12 in Pátra. Only May scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 9 days, 3 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

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 34.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 6.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 84 mm — roughly 106% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 6 mm in the driest year against 169 mm in the wettest, around an average of 79 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 7.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.6 °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

11.3 hours of daylight, losing 1.2 hours across the month. That is between Pátra's extremes of 14.8 and 9.5 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 23.4 °C in October — comfortable for a proper swim. The sea peaks at 26.6 °C in August and bottoms out at 15.5 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

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 Pátra versus nearby

If Pátra is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Kalamata is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Volos is close enough to be a coin toss — 4 °C cooler, 2 days less rain.

So: October works, with May the better month by 8 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

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