Today
Has it rained enough in Athens?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Athens has had 90.1mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 26.1mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (94.7mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Athens through a normal year
Across a normal year Athens gets about 408.6mm of rain, most of it in December (71mm) and least in August (7mm).
A normal October in Athens has rain on 6 days. Only 3 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Athens the driest place this site covers in Europe in October — 26.1mm against Vigo's 238.7mm at the other end.
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.