Athens Has Had Just Six Snowfalls Since 2000
While snow isn’t totally out of the ordinary in the mountainous areas surrounding Athens, it’s rarer in the capital city itself. (To say nothing of the Mediterranean islands.) Central Athens experienced similarly heavy snowfall last February, which marked the city’s worst snowstorm since 2008; that storm cut power for residents and left three dead. The city also saw snow in 2019, but the white stuff remains a rarity; there have been just six snowfalls since 2000.
