#gavdos

[deadlyalone]

Gavdos, Greece

[mothmiso]

Gavdos (2) by Leonidas

Via Flickr:

Gavdos is a island 48 km south of Crete. 50 people live on this island. After a day of strong wind all the foot prints were cleared. There is also Thyme ( one of my favorite herbs) growing on the dunes.     

[gemsofgreece]

I know this is obnoxious and very nitpicky but athens is neither the hottest nor the driest place in greece lmao, parts of the Cyclades islands are the driest by far and as for the hottest, if you consider highest temperatures in the summer or the summer average highest temperature a good pick would be sparta/southern peloponese in general or if you consider the yearly average temperature then it would be a southern Dodecanese island maybe kastelorizo, or southern crete and gavdos due to the very mild winters

Sincerely a person who spents way too much time on wikipedia

See, while a lot of this should make sense, it is not exactly correct. South doesn't always equate hotter and drier. Besides, I was not talking about annual averages, as I was saying Athens is not good for summer in specific.

Regarding Athens versus Sparta - Athens has higher average highs for summer (though Sparta is pretty hot too) and Sparta has more precipitation than Athens throughout the year and also a little more in the summer as well. The differences are small but the conclusion is the same: Athens is hotter and drier than Sparta in the far-south. Here are the full climate reports for Athens and Sparta from the same website to avoid scewed data. In case you are wondering why, it's probably because Sparta is built on the foot of Mt Taygetus, which brings it a little more rainfall and coolness. Athens has Parnitha but it is a smaller mountain. Athens also dried up and built over all its rivers, turning its once semi-humid microclimate to a very dry one. All these things affect the real and even more so the felt weather. If you add to that the extreme urbanisation of Athens, the gasses produced by the traffic and its alarming lack in vegetation, it makes summer there an extremely difficult business.

As for the islands, the south of Athens' region (and a bit of Corinth next to it) are the only mainland regions which belong to the same hot semi-arid zone as the Cycladic islands you mentioned. I can't tell you which of all these places is the absolute hottest and driest without looking it up, but some of Attica belongs to that zone and the part that doesn't has all the aforementioned conditions that make the felt climate very similar. Furthermore, I was also talking about main destinations - if there is somewhere a village of 10 people that is hotter and drier than Athens, well, I might have not taken it into account in my travel guide post lol

The map is from the Wikipedia page “Climate of Greece”. In orange is the hot semi-arid zone.

Then I searched Kastelorizo island in the Dodecanese and Elounda in South Crete; both of those are colder in the summer than Athens, with an average high 2-3 degrees below Athens, although they are drier (like, 2 days of rain in Elounda versus 4 days of rain in Athens). Search them up in the same website. (Kastelorizo is with the name "Megisti".)

It is not a mystery that those islands have lower average highs than Athens, because they have something Athens lacks. They are surrounded by the sea, which always makes the climate milder and they have much stronger winds, the Aegean sea breezes. For example, when travelling to the Cyclades, you will need to have a jacket with you for the evenings. If you put a jacket in Athens in July, it's probably a suicide attempt.

See, there's a lot of stuff that makes environmental conditions what they are. I can confidently repeat that the summer heatwave in Athens - both in terms of numbers and experience - will be more unpleasant than in Gavdos or any other arid southern island.

Fun fact: Wanna know another place that gets extreme highs, more than Sparta and most of these islands we mentioned, and is the true heat archenemy of Athens?

And Lamia too, which is between Larisa and Athens. But those are clearly more humid and rainy than Athens so.. 🤷🏻‍♀️ (I didn’t edit the map with the arrow btw, it was like that on its own and for some reason I find this very funny.)

[aristippos-stars-aka-maiandr0s]

Gavdos island 25 miles south of Crete

[vritomartis]

Discover Gavdos, where time slows down and tranquility takes hold. 🌊🏝️

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[ammolofos]

Gavdos island, southern island of Europe

[a2imediagroupe]

Grèce : 38 migrants secourus au sud de la Crête

Les garde-côtes grecs ont annoncé jeudi que 38 migrants avaient été secourus au large des côtes sud de la Crête, à proximité de l’île de Gavdos. Ils doivent être transférés vers le camp de migrants de Kalatha Akrotiri, à La Canée. Ces derniers mois, les arrivées de bateaux de migrants, partis de l’est de la Libye, se sont multipliés dans le sud de la Grèce. Un groupe de 38 migrants a été…

[misstsiki]

Kindest and most reliable camping buddie.

[astrarxh]

trapped between her hips

[elladastinkardiamou]

Gavdos

Photo by Efi Nikol

[greekgetaway]

Where the sun meets the sea 😍 #gavdos #sarakiniko #seaislife Presented by IG/@fotaras6 📸🏆 (at Sarakiniko Beach, Gavdos Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH3DJ1mhma7/?igshid=1a8hpe4qaoy6t

[gemsofgreece]

It’s Cape Akrotiri in Gavdos island, Greece :) 

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[kanoumetinepanastash]

Shower together

[victoriaenjoyshardcore]

Gavdos, 2018