Athens
Capital of Greece: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Akropolis 2015: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Athens is the capital of Greece, in Attica. About 664,046 people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Greece in our atlas.
It lies at 37.98° N, 23.73° E, about 70 m (230 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Europe/Athens time zone.
Location
Red dot: Athens. Green dots: other major cities of Greece. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Athens has a Mediterranean (hot summer) climate (Köppen Csa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 32°C (90°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 6°C (44°F). Around 500 mm (20 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Dec.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in GreeceNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Kallithéa · 4 km
- Peristéri · 5 km
- Piraeus · 9 km
- Acharnés · 11 km
- Pátra · 177 km
- Lárisa · 215 km
- Thessaloníki · 303 km
- Irákleion · 320 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 264371 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q1524 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Akropolis 2015: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Wikimedia Commons)
- GR-athen-panathinaiko-stadion: Bgabel, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mount Lycabettus from the Areopagus on June 7, 2020: George E. Koronaios, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- View of the Acropolis Museum from the Acropolis in Athens: Yair-haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- AncientAgoraofAthensColour: https://www.flickr.com/people/jonezes/, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Leather palaska of Theodoros Grivas - National Historical Museum, Athens: Archaeaoris, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Theatre of Dionysus 1: Rrburke, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Wall Theatre Herodes Atticus Acropolis Athens Greece: Jebulon, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pnyx-berg2: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
