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Naxos: people swimming on sea near brown mountain during daytime

Naxos in May

sweet spot busy · one of the best months to go

The year in Naxos

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  1. Naxos in January: ok
  2. Naxos in February: good
  3. Naxos in March: sweet spot
  4. Naxos in April: sweet spot
  5. Naxos in May: sweet spot, busy
  6. Naxos in June: sweet spot, busy
  7. Naxos in July: sweet spot, busy
  8. Naxos in August: sweet spot, busy
  9. Naxos in September: sweet spot, busy
  10. Naxos in October: sweet spot
  11. Naxos in November: good
  12. Naxos in December: ok
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  • Busy
May at Naxos is 25°C by day and 17°C at night, with 2 rainy days and about 13 hours of sun a day. Holidays: GR: Easter Monday; GR: Good Friday.

The numbers

Daily high25°C
Nightly low17°C
Feels like, afternoon25°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more2 · 15 mm
Humidity64%
Sunshine12.5 h/day
Daylight14.2 h/day
Days over 35°C0
Beach and sea20 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 19 °C, cold
Crowds64 / 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 Naxos Town (Chora): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

May: about usual. Busiest from June to September; quietest from November to April.

Public holidays in May

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Naxos in pictures

What to pack

  • Sun protection: about 13 hours of sunshine a day.

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 Naxos: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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