Today
Has it rained enough in Patras?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Patras has had 76.5mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 78.3mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Patras through a normal year
Across a normal year Patras gets about 949mm of rain, most of it in December (140.6mm) and least in July (11.3mm).
A normal October in Patras has rain on 10 days. Only 7 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Patras one of the wetter places this site covers in Europe in October — 51st 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 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.