Corfu weather by month
Corfu weather by month swings further than the Aegean: 33 °C by day in August but 182 mm of rain in November, nearly three times as much as Crete in the same month.
Corfu in November, daytime high
19 °C
| Night low | 11 °C |
| Sea surface | 20 °C |
| Rain in the month | 182 mm |
| Days with 1 mm or more | 10 days |
| Daylight | 9 h 54 min |
| October, daytime high | 24 °C |
| December, daytime high | 15 °C |
Averages 1991 to 2020 at Corfu. A typical month, not a forecast. Method.
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Corfu lies in the Ionian Sea off the north-west coast of Greece, close to Albania, and it is the greenest of the popular Greek islands for a simple reason: it gets far more rain. Our figures come from the Corfu station, averaged over 1991 to 2020. The yearly pattern is sharp. July and August are hot and dry, at 32 °C and 33 °C by day with 1 day of rain in July. Then the autumn storms arrive from the west: 93 mm in September, 119 mm in October, 182 mm in November and 183 mm in December. Winter nights are cold for the Mediterranean, 6 °C in January. The sea is a little cooler than in the Aegean islands to the east, 26 °C in August.
Corfu weather by month, 1991 to 2020
| Month | Daytime high | Night low | Sea | Rain | Wet days | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14 °C | 6 °C | 16 °C | 124 mm | 9 days | 9 h 42 min |
| February | 14 °C | 6 °C | 15 °C | 111 mm | 9 days | 10 h 36 min |
| March | 17 °C | 8 °C | 15 °C | 87 mm | 8 days | 11 h 48 min |
| April | 20 °C | 11 °C | 16 °C | 63 mm | 7 days | 13 h 12 min |
| May | 25 °C | 15 °C | 19 °C | 34 mm | 4 days | 14 h 18 min |
| June | 29 °C | 18 °C | 22 °C | 19 mm | 2 days | 15 h 00 min |
| July | 32 °C | 21 °C | 24 °C | 11 mm | 1 day | 14 h 42 min |
| August | 33 °C | 21 °C | 26 °C | 26 mm | 1 day | 13 h 42 min |
| September | 28 °C | 18 °C | 24 °C | 93 mm | 5 days | 12 h 24 min |
| October | 24 °C | 15 °C | 22 °C | 119 mm | 7 days | 11 h 06 min |
| November | 19 °C | 11 °C | 20 °C | 182 mm | 10 days | 9 h 54 min |
| December | 15 °C | 7 °C | 17 °C | 183 mm | 11 days | 9 h 24 min |
The hot core of summer
From June to August, Corfu is hotter by day than Crete: 33 °C in August against 29 °C in Heraklion. Nights are cooler, 21 °C, and the sea reaches 22 °C in June to October.
Corfu in September and October
September begins warm, 28 °C by day with a sea of 24 °C, but rain comes on about 5 days, five times as many as in July. By October the figure reaches 7 days. For a late-season week with a lower risk of rain, Rhodes or Cyprus are drier bets. For the greenest landscapes and wild flowers, Corfu in April and May, at 20 °C and 25 °C, is at its best.