Today
Has it rained enough in Heraklion?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Heraklion has had 134mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 35.3mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (118.2mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Heraklion through a normal year
Across a normal year Heraklion gets about 442.6mm of rain, most of it in February (68.2mm) and least in July (2.7mm).
A normal October in Heraklion has rain on 9 days. Only 5 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Heraklion one of the drier places this site covers in Europe in October — 115th of 116, against Vigo at the wet end (238.7mm) and Athens at the dry end (26.1mm).
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.