Weather in Volos in August

Prime time. August is about as good as Volos gets. Highs average 28.8 °C, lows 25 °C, and rain falls on 4 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain falls on only 4 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 28.8 °C days and 25 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 8 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 3.8 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 34.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 19.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 28 mm — roughly 147% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. August rainfall has ranged from 3 mm to 79 mm across the twenty years measured — a 76 mm spread around an average of 19 mm. The average is real but almost no individual August looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 10 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 60%.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28.6 °C in July, 28.8 here, 25.3 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in August

13.8 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Volos's extremes of 14.9 and 9.4 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 20.9 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead. If the dates are flexible, November is the trade worth considering — 13 points weaker on weather, and materially quieter.

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

August in Volos versus nearby

If Volos is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Lárisa is the weaker option in August — 6.1 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Thessaloníki is the weaker option in August — 4.1 °C warmer, the same number of rain days.

So: August is effectively as good as it gets here — 3 points behind May, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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