Climate and Weather

	Northern Ancient Greece	Southern Ancient Greece	Both South and North Greece
Spring	Very little rain, ideal time to harvest wheat	Hardly ever rains, ideal time to harvest wheat.	Early June was the time to harvest.
Summer	Some occurrences of thunderstorms and generally 80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.	It can easily get up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit	Very dry, leads to drought due to little to no rain. From July to August there was only 6mm of rainfall.
Fall	In the fall, it would start to rain again and they would experience many storms. The temperature would then drop to 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit making it the perfect time to plant wheat.	In the fall, it would start to rain again and they would experience many storms. The temperature would then drop to 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit making it the perfect time to plant wheat.	Slight rain increase form the summer.
Winter	Rainy and pretty chilly with several occasions of snow.	Rainy and chilly but would hardly ever snow. The temperature would rarely drop below 50 degrees Fahrenheit	Mild and wet. From December to January there as 65mm of rainfall.

 

 

Fast Facts: On average the sun shines for 3,000 hours per year. Weather changed with the seasons. The first Olympic games were held in Greece almost 3000 years ago. Greeks were the first to have a democratic government. The Greeks were the first to develop an alphabet with vowels.

 

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