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Chios in February

ok · worth considering

The year in Chios

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  1. Chios in January: ok
  2. Chios in February: ok
  3. Chios in March: good
  4. Chios in April: sweet spot
  5. Chios in May: sweet spot
  6. Chios in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Chios in July: ok, busy
  8. Chios in August: ok, busy
  9. Chios in September: sweet spot
  10. Chios in October: sweet spot
  11. Chios in November: good
  12. Chios in December: ok
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  • Busy
February at Chios is 14°C by day and 8°C at night, with 9 rainy days and about 8 hours of sun a day. 14C max, 9 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high14°C
Nightly low8°C
Feels like, afternoon11°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more9 · 97 mm
Humidity79%
Sunshine8.4 h/day
Daylight10.8 h/day
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Chios town, the port: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

February: quiet. Busiest from June to August; quietest from October to February.

Public holidays in February

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Chios in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 8°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 8 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 79%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Greece: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Chios: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

February elsewhere

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