Weather in Volos in October

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, October is the one. Highs average 20.9 °C, lows 17.3 °C, and rain falls on 7 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 5 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 on 7 days, 2 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; the day barely swings — 3.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 29.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 10.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 34 mm — roughly 65% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 2 mm in the driest year against 140 mm in the wettest, around an average of 52 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 11.6 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: 4.4 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 4.1 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

11.2 hours of daylight, losing 1.2 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.

October 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 — 2.9 °C warmer, the same number of rain days. Thessaloníki is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: October 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.

Every month in Volos

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