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Model forecast (Open-Meteo, MET Norway) — do not use for navigation. Official: HNMS (EMY) · Hellenic Coast Guard · navigational warnings.
NOW AND TODAY
The sea at Piraeus now
Good at Piraeus (next 3 hours): Small boat — fine. SUP and kayak — fine. Swimming — with care. Shore fishing — fine. Wind 2 Bft (3 kn S), gusts 6 kn, waves 0.0 m
- Wind
- 1 kn · 2 km/h from S · 1 Beaufort
- Gusts
- 3 kn
- Waves
- 0.0 m · period 3 s
- Air
- 20 °C
- Sea water
- 22.8 °C
Best hours: today 12:00–18:00, tomorrow 08:00–18:00, tomorrow 08:00–13:00.
Tomorrow: Good: wind up to 9 kn from SSE (3 Beaufort), gusts up to 15 kn, waves up to 0.6 m, air 21…23 °C. Suitable daylight hours: 10 of 10.
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7 DAYS
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Daily rating = the worst daylight hour (same scale as the hourly forecast).
SEA
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ATMOSPHERE
Air
SUN AND MOON
Daylight
BEACH
Swimming
Swim only on lifeguarded beaches and follow the lifeguards' flags. With waves above 1 m there is a risk of rip currents.
SCALES
Beaufort and Douglas — what the numbers mean
Wind · Beaufort
Sea · Douglas
DATA SOURCES AND LICENCES
Where the data comes from
- Weather and sea (wind, gusts, temperature, rain, cloud, waves, swell, water temperature, currents): Open-Meteo forecast and marine APIs (models from national weather services, ECMWF and Copernicus Marine), licence CC BY 4.0. Changes: point and hour selection, unit conversion (knots, km/h, Beaufort), daily summaries.
- Backup weather source: MET Norway Locationforecast 2.0, CC BY 4.0 — used only if Open-Meteo is unavailable.
- Sun and moon: calculated in the browser with astronomical formulas — no external service.
- Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Leaflet (BSD-2).
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Aegean Radar is not affiliated with Open-Meteo, MET Norway, Copernicus, the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS/EMY) or the Hellenic Coast Guard, and they do not endorse this site. Forecasts come from models and can differ from real conditions, especially close to the coast.
More about the forecast
Separate pages with current conditions and local information: marine weather Piraeus, marine weather Mykonos, marine weather Santorini, marine weather Naxos, marine weather Paros, marine weather Rhodes, marine weather Kos, marine weather Chios, marine weather Mytilene, marine weather Thessaloniki, marine weather Kavala, marine weather Volos, marine weather Heraklion.
Wave and wind forecast for the Aegean Sea — Piraeus and the Saronic Gulf, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Crete, the north-east Aegean islands, Thessaloniki, Kavala and Volos: wind direction, speed and gusts, wave height and period, swell and sea water temperature for the next 48 hours and 7 days. The meltemi, the strong summer north wind of the Aegean, is shown in the same scale. Useful before fishing, sailing or a boat trip; live ships are on the AIS map.