Kalamata, Greece

Kalamata sits along the Mediterranean in Greece, and the 2015–2024 weather record gives its sunshine a clear shape: the May peak reaches a 98/100 sun score, with daytime highs around 25°C — a solid base for a beach trip.

Across a typical year, afternoon temperatures swing between 14°C (January) and 34°C (July). The wet–dry contrast is pronounced: 40% rain-day odds in January against 5% in July. The genuinely warm window — average highs of 24°C or better — covers May–October.

Season by season (on the northern calendar), spring brings 21°C highs with 23% rain-day odds, summer 33°C at 8%, autumn 24°C at 24%, and winter 15°C at 36%. In short: plan around spring if you can, keep summer as the fallback, and go into winter with managed expectations (its season score is 60). A practical compromise is May — the edge of the warm window, averaging 25°C with a 98 sun score.

Best months to visit Kalamata

Our month-by-month scoring puts May first (98/100), with June (98) and April (96) close behind. In practice you have flexibility — March–November all stay above a 70 sun score. The month to avoid on pure weather odds is January (53/100).

Put against its 109 mediterranean peers in May, it lands in the sunnier half of the group, ahead of 65% of them.

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The live forecast backs this up: of the next 15 days, 5 look mostly clear and 2 carry meaningful rain risk, in a 6–21°C band. Today's cached sun score is 72/100.