Greece Climate & Temperature Highs and Lows for Rhodes & Samos
The Greece climate is easily categorised in three main types. An alpine mediterranean climate can be found in the high mountains of the north of the country. Heavy snowfalls occur in bitter winters and summers are cool with regular thunderstorms. A continental, temperate mediterranean climate effects much of the mainland with greater daily and annual extremes of temperature than on the islands. Winters are cold with abundant frost and heavy snowfall especially on the high ground in the west. Summers are very hot with occasional thunderstorms. Finally a dry meditteranean climate effects the Islands and low lying coastal areas of the mainland. This is typifed by dry, hot summers with abundant sunshine with warm nights and cool winters with lengthy spells of rainfall. Mean Greece temperatures range between +14 and +30 degrees celcius with -28 to +47.8 degrees being the minimum and maximum record temperatures.
The winter Rhodes temperature in December and January ranges between 7 and 17 degrees celcius on average. In the spring time temperatures in Rhodes, Greece show average values of between 9 and 17 degrees of celcius in the month of March. In June the summer mean values for the Rhodes climate increase to between 19 and 30 degrees celcius. By the autumn average temperatures fall to between 15 and 29 degrees in the months of September and October.
On the other hand Samos temperatures in the February winter month fall in the region of a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 13 degrees on average. After winter comes spring and the Samos climate warms with mean temperatures in April and May in the range of 11 to 24 degrees celcius. In July and August the summertime Samos temperature range is from an average low of 22 degrees to an average high of 32 degrees celcius. Average temperatures beging to fall in the autumn so that in November the Samos climate has records of mean temperatures of between 11 and 18 degrees low and high respectably.