Weather in Volos in December

Shoulder season. December is shoulder season in Volos — cheaper, quieter, and a genuine gamble. Highs sit at 12.8 °C and the day is short; this is an indoors-with-excursions month, not an outdoors-all-day one.

December ranks 11 of 12 — near the bottom of Volos's year. May is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 32 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 10 days, 2 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Layers, and a genuinely waterproof outer — at 12.8 °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 — 3.3 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest December day reached 20.9 °C and the coldest night fell to -0.7 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 55 mm — roughly 86% of the month's rain in one day.

December is moderately variable: 5 mm in the driest year against 139 mm in the wettest, around an average of 64 mm. Roughly two Decembers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 14.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 77%, which at 12.8 °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: 16.8 °C in November, 12.8 here, 11.5 in January. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in December

December sits at the dark end of Volos's year — 9.4 hours of daylight against 14.9 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: 20.9 °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 Volos versus nearby

If Volos is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Lárisa is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. Thessaloníki is the weaker option in December — 2.9 °C cooler, 1 day less rain.

So: December is a compromise. May is 31 points better and is what Volos 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 Volos

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