Climate Change Chart of Rhodes, Greece

Overview of climate changes

Temperature changes

Monthly mean temperature shows an unweighted difference averaged across calendar months of +1.02 °C compared with the earlier reference period; this summarizes the monthly means rather than daytime maximum temperatures. The largest monthly increase was in October, with a difference of +1.37 °C in the more recent period. That identifies the strongest increase among the supplied monthly differences, not a uniform change in every month.

Changes in rainfall

Averaged across calendar months, mean daily rainfall had a difference of -0.10 mm/day, an unweighted summary of monthly means rather than a day-weighted annual average or monthly total. The most pronounced monthly decrease was in December, where mean daily rainfall had a difference of -1.93 mm/day compared with the earlier reference period. In contrast, March recorded the largest monthly increase, with a difference of +0.68 mm/day; these extrema show that monthly differences were not all in the same direction.

Changes in sunshine duration

Mean daily sunshine duration had an unweighted difference averaged across calendar months of -0.14 hours/day compared with the earlier reference period. The largest monthly decrease occurred in February, with a difference of -0.61 hours/day. By contrast, December had the largest monthly increase, a difference of +0.31 hours/day in the more recent period, so the monthly extrema point in opposite directions.

Changes in snowfall

The unweighted mean of monthly mean daily snowfall had a difference of 0.00 mm/day across calendar months at the displayed precision. This rounded aggregate does not establish that snowfall was absent or that every month was unchanged. Monthly differences were not identical: January had the largest increase, with a difference of +0.05 mm/day, while February had the largest decrease, with a difference of -0.01 mm/day compared with the earlier reference period.