Average Wind Speed And Direction In Greece

[StuM]

Originally Posted by cal40john

Averages don't always tell the whole story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etesian

Which is why the wind roses on pilot charts and at the link I gave above are useful.

[StuM]

Originally Posted by pete33458

Here is the resource Uncivilized was referring to

Maritime Safety Information

(you want the North Atlantic atlas). It's nice because it can be downloaded (one file for each month). I hadn't seen the resource that StuM posted, although it looks quite useful and I will save that link. But probably not much good if you are offline.

Pete

Use the site for planning, its a bit late to go looking when you get there

You can download the data and windroses for the areas/times you are interested in. See the attachment above.

[swisssailoralex]

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[suedstern1]

One additional comment:
Around the Greek islands the wind will be influenced by the landscape and will be locally very different in direction and speed from the average and the forecast.

[hoppy]

Originally Posted by holmek

There is no wind on the water in Greece. The only wind you will encounter is at a Taverna where there are fans with atomisers to try to cool you off. Greece is not a SAILING destination.

Have you been to Greece outside of tavernas?

I vote this to be one of the most clueless posts ever on CF


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[hoppy]

Originally Posted by ColonelWima

If you are afraid of wind don't go sailing. Anyway the last 3 years the Meltemi wasn't there😥

And this year when I returned to the Aegean it has been making up for those years it's been away.


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[dlymn]

Windfinder on a desktop or laptop
search for a city
View forecasts
Wind statistics
Move down the screen and click on the month for which you want the wind rose
Not every site has statistics but there will be information ao a site nearby. Sometimes a month might be missing

[dlymn]

Originally Posted by holmek

There is no wind on the water in Greece. The only wind you will encounter is at a Taverna where there are fans with atomisers to try to cool you off. Greece is not a SAILING destination.

Clearly this a fellow who sails happily in Greek waters and enjoys the pleasure of pulling into an isolated Greek port and revelling in the rustic simplicity there. He loves it as much as I and many thousands of other sailors do and he doesn't want any more boats to come in lest he loses his spot on the quay.

[rgleason]

Climatology is based upon 30 years of Noaa data. It is a very expanded version of pilot charts but based on average monthly grib model which can be used with the weather routing plugin.