According to the preliminary data of the Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Copernicus programme, which were analysed by the scientific team of meteo.gr/E.A.A.A., the winter of 2023-2024 was the warmest on record for Greece.

The winter of 2023-2024 (December 2023, January and February 2024) in Greece was characterized by long periods of high temperatures, far exceeding the normal seasonal temperatures.

Figure 1 shows the average maximum temperature for the winter period from 1960 to 2024 in Greece as a whole.

The winter of 2023-2024 is recorded as the warmest on record for Greece, surpassing the winter of 2015-2016.

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A very important fact is that in the last 10 years the 6 warmest winters of all time have been recorded.

The average maximum temperature in Greece from 1960 to 2024 for the winter period shows an increase of 1.8 °C.

Figure 2 shows the deviation of the average maximum temperature from the average value for the period 1991-2020 in Greece.

In areas of northern Greece the average maximum temperature for the winter of 2023-2024 varied 2-3 °C above the average value for the period 1991-2020, in the rest of the country 1-2 °C, while at no point in Greece did the deviation of the average maximum temperature fall below +0.5 °C.