April
Wk 14–16
The quietest stretch among this region's best weather weeks: crowd level around 10 out of 100, weather comfort near 76.
- Crowd level
- 9–11
- Comfort
- 71–81
Greece · Korfu
Corfu: a green island between Byzantium and Venice
For more than 400 years the island belonged to the Republic of Venice, which fought off the last Ottoman siege of the island's capital in 1716; even before that, a triangle of Byzantine fortresses had secured the north west, north east and south of the island. In 1889 Empress Elisabeth of Austria had the Achilleion palace built near Gastouri.
Busiest week
AugustCrowd level 100
Wk 31 · 1,055,073 overnight stays
Quietest weeks
JanuaryCrowd level 0
Wk 1–3 · measured against the region's own year, not against other regions
Sweet spot
AprilCrowd level 9–11
Wk 14–16 · quietest while the weather still holds
Warmest month
29 °CComfort 74
August · around 7 mm of rain in the month
Korfu in brief
At around 585 square kilometres, Corfu is the second largest of the Ionian Islands and the seventh largest island of Greece. As early as 734 BC, Chersikrates, from Corinth, founded a colony here; in 664 BC Kerkyra won what Thucydides called the first sea battle of Greek history against its mother city. After spells under the Normans and Byzantium, the island belonged to the Republic of Venice for more than 400 years from 1386, which fought off the last Ottoman siege of the island's capital in 1716; even before that, a triangle of the Byzantine fortresses of Angelokastro, Kassiopi and Gardiki had secured the north west, north east and south of the island. In 1889 Empress Elisabeth of Austria had the Achilleion palace built near Gastouri; the German Kaiser Wilhelm II bought it in 1907.
When is Korfu busy, when is it quiet?
Click a week. The panel on the right explains why it is busy or quiet.
Weather profile
Weather comfort is an absolute scale (0 = poor, 100 = ideal) and a second axis next to the season-relative crowd level.
JanuaryØ 0
FebruaryØ 0
MarchØ 0
AprilØ 11
MayØ 42
JuneØ 71
JulyØ 91
AugustØ 97
SeptemberØ 71
OctoberØ 23
NovemberØ 3
DecemberØ 1
Colour = season-relative crowd levelBar = weather comfort (Sun & warmth), absolute 0–100
Why this week?
April · Wk 14
Crowd level9/100 · fairly quiet
quietbusy
Weather comfort28/100 · Sun & warmth
-72 % versus the region's annual average.
- Contributing months
- March (8 %) · April (92 %)
- Overnight stays/week
- 101,495
- School-holiday pressure (source markets)
- 20 % of source markets on school holidays · -3 % crowding from holidays
- Main source markets
- Greece (21 %) · United Kingdom (20 %) · Germany (19 %) · 82% of guests modelled
- Region range
- 3,538–1,056,761 (avg 357,401)
- Base years
- 2022, 2023, 2024 (excluding 2020, 2021)
v1: Crowd-Score aus der Eurostat-Basisschicht (Übernachtungen), moduliert vom Schulferien-Druck der Quellmärkte, region-spezifisch gewichtet mit dem Quellland-Mix. Season-relativ zur Region. Event-Schichten folgen.
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The travel year in Korfu, month by month
The year as a table to read and to cite: crowd level for every month, plus weather comfort and temperature from the climate normals.
| Month | Crowd level0–100, season-relative | Weather comfort0–100, profile “mild” | Avg temperature |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 36 | 9 °C |
| February | 0 | 45 | 11 °C |
| March | 0 | 57 | 13 °C |
| April | 11 | 79 | 16 °C |
| May | 42 | 91 | 20 °C |
| June | 71 | 85 | 26 °C |
| July | 91 | 75 | 29 °C |
| August | 97 | 74 | 29 °C |
| September | 71 | 83 | 25 °C |
| October | 23 | 79 | 19 °C |
| November | 3 | 58 | 15 °C |
| December | 1 | 41 | 11 °C |
The crowd level is season-relative: 100 is the annual peak of Korfu itself, not the busiest destination in Europe. The figures say when it is quiet here — not where it is quieter than elsewhere.
Weather comfort 0–100 from the climate normals, profile “mild” – the same profile as the recommendation above, not the selection in the calendar. A “–” means the data for that month is missing.
Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026
The windows worth catching
Three windows from the model: first whether the weather suits the region, then how busy it gets.
October
Wk 41–43
A second option, also with usable weather: crowd level around 21, weather comfort near 77.
- Crowd level
- 20–22
- Comfort
- 73–81
August
Wk 31–33
The region's peak: crowd level around 99 out of 100. Only if the dates are fixed.
- Crowd level
- 98–100
- Comfort
- 72–73
Korfu compared with Europe
How full the accommodation is here, measured against Europe – on the only measure on which two travel regions can be compared.
- Bed occupancy in Korfu
- 32.1
- European median
- 23.1
per cent of bed places, annual mean
per cent of bed places, annual mean
Furthest from the median: January, at <0.1× the value. Closest to the median: October, at 1.0× the value.
Mean across 12 months, weighted by their weeks. This occupancy compares travel regions with one another. The crowding in the table above compares Korfu with itself. The two measures are never combined.
Climate through the year
Average temperature with day/night range and precipitation across the twelve months.
- Avg temperature
- Day/night range
- Precipitation
| Month | Avg temperature (°C) | Day avg (°C) | Night avg (°C) | Precipitation (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 8 | 9 | 8 | 155 |
| Feb | 10 | 11 | 8 | 81 |
| Mar | 11 | 13 | 10 | 72 |
| Apr | 14 | 16 | 12 | 31 |
| May | 18 | 20 | 16 | 26 |
| Jun | 23 | 26 | 21 | 16 |
| Jul | 26 | 29 | 23 | 7 |
| Aug | 26 | 29 | 24 | 7 |
| Sep | 23 | 25 | 21 | 65 |
| Oct | 18 | 19 | 17 | 109 |
| Nov | 14 | 15 | 13 | 209 |
| Dec | 10 | 11 | 9 | 153 |
The band shows mean daytime to nighttime temperature. Precipitation shown as monthly total (mm). Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
How sunny?
How much sun a typical day delivers, month by month, expressed as hours of full midday sun.
Very sunny
≈ 4.9 h of full midday sun per day, annual average
Jun
Sunniest month
| Month | ≈ h of full midday sun per day |
|---|---|
| Jan | 2.3 |
| Feb | 3.3 |
| Mar | 4.8 |
| Apr | 6.2 |
| May | 6.9 |
| Jun | 7.7 |
| Jul | 7.7 |
| Aug | 6.8 |
| Sep | 5.3 |
| Oct | 3.8 |
| Nov | 2.4 |
| Dec | 2.0 |
Basis: mean daily solar irradiance in kWh/m²/day; 1 kWh/m² is roughly one hour of full midday sun (1,000 W/m²). Not the same as measured sunshine duration. Typical monthly value (climate normal), not a forecast.
Directly reachable from
Destination airports of Korfu and every European departure airport with a direct connection to them.
Destination airports
Select a destination airport to see the direct departure airports.
“Directly reachable” means a direct connection exists according to our sources. We do not show a live timetable. Availability and flight days can vary by season and airline.
Korfu in detail
Location and landscape
At around 585 square kilometres, Corfu is the second largest of the Ionian Islands and the seventh largest island of Greece. The island runs about 60 kilometres in length, some 75 kilometres south east of the Strait of Otranto; the narrowest point of the Corfu Channel, between the north east coast and the Albanian coast, is around two kilometres wide. Two mountain ranges divide the island: in the north the Pantokrator chain, rising to 911 metres, and in the middle the Agii Deka at 576 metres. The name Pantokrator means "the sole ruler"; the summit carries a monastery and a viewpoint looking out over the whole island as far as Albania.
Nature and agriculture
Because of its vegetation the island is also called "the green island"; around 36 species of orchid occur here, and roughly four percent of its animal and plant species are endemic. In the Korission Lagoon in the south west, more than 150 bird species have been recorded. Around 65 percent of the island's area is farmed, 55 percentage points of that with olive trees, the rest chiefly with vines and citrus fruit.
Antiquity
In 734 BC the oikist Chersikrates, from Corinth, drove out the Eretrian colonists and refounded the city; in 664 BC Kerkyra, according to Thucydides, won the first sea battle of Greek history against its mother city Corinth and broke free of its rule. In 480 BC Corfu fielded the second largest Greek fleet, with 60 ships, but did not take an active part in the war against the Persians. The dispute with Corinth over the city of Epidamnos and the protective alliance the Athenians granted Corfu was among the triggers of the Peloponnesian War; in 427 BC the polis of Kerkyra suffered a civil war that Thucydides described at length. After Rome's war against the Illyrian queen Teuta, Corfu became the first Roman province in Greece.
Byzantines, Normans and the Venetians
In 1081 the Norman duke Robert Guiscard conquered the island; in 1084 Venice and Byzantium jointly retook it. The Normans occupied Corfu again in 1148, until their garrison surrendered in the summer of 1149. After the Fourth Crusade, Corfu came briefly under Venetian control in 1207, fell to the Despotate of Epirus in 1214, and passed into the domain of Charles of Anjou from 1267. In 1386 a six-man delegation from Corfu submitted to the Doge of Venice; Venetian rule lasted more than 400 years, until 1797, and shaped the island decisively. Under Venetian rule, the Jewish residents of Corfu Town held unusually broad rights: up to a limit they could own land and property, and they sat on the city council.
Fortresses, sieges and the mouse island
Angelokastro, a Byzantine-Venetian fortress from the 13th century on a rock on the north west coast, was never conquered thanks to its position. Together with the castles of Kassiopi in the north east and Gardiki in the south, Angelokastro formed a defensive triangle of three Byzantine fortresses before the Venetian era. In 1537 the Ottomans landed on Corfu with some 50,000 men and besieged the fortress without success; in 1716 the Venetian army under Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg lifted a renewed siege of the island's capital, fending off the last Ottoman attempt to take the island. Off Kanoni lie the mouse island of Pontikonisi, with a chapel from the 12th century, and the neighbouring monastery island of Vlacherna.
From Napoleon to the present
After the end of the Republic of Venice in 1797, Corfu belonged for a time to France and, from 1798 to 1807, was a protectorate of Russia; from 1815 it formed part of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British protection. On 21 May 1864, Corfu was ceded to the Kingdom of Greece and declared permanently neutral by a treaty with France as signatory power. From 1916 to 1918, Corfu Town was the seat of the Serbian government in exile; the Declaration of Corfu on the founding of the Yugoslav state was adopted here in 1917. On the offshore island of Vido, a Serbian war mausoleum from the First World War commemorates 3,000 soldiers buried there; a further 20,000 rest in the sea around the island.
Frequently asked questions about the best time to visit Korfu
Short answers on timing, weather and getting there, all from the data on this page.
When is the best time to visit Korfu?
- The best time to visit Korfu is April (Wk 14–16): it is the quietest stretch among the region's best weather weeks – crowd level around 10 out of 100, weather comfort about 76 out of 100.
When is Korfu quietest?
- January (Wk 1–3) is the quietest time in Korfu. Crowd levels there sit at 0 out of 100, the lowest across the year.
When is Korfu busiest?
- Korfu is busiest in August (Wk 31) with around 1,055,073 overnight stays in the peak week.
What is the weather like in Korfu and when is it warmest?
- It is warmest in Korfu in August with an average of 29 °C and around 7 mm of rain in the month.
How do you get to Korfu?
- Korfu is reachable via 3 destination airports with direct flights, including Ioannis Kapodistrias Airport (CFU), Zakinthos Airport (ZTH) and Kefallinia Airport (EFL).
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Sources and data vintages
Every provenance note on this page, collected in one place.
- Cover photo
- Photo by CALIN STAN on Unsplash
- Cover video
- Video by Lazar Krstić on Pexels
- Crowding figures
- Index 2.0 · As of 25/08/2026. v1 approximation, calculated from Eurostat overnight stays. Day tourism and cruises (Venice, Dubrovnik …) are still missing, so we show these destinations as quieter than they are. The crowd score is a model-based forecast, not a measurement.
- Climate data
- Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2025.
- Reachability
Data sources: direct connections from Wikipedia (“Airlines and destinations”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, aggregated and modified by us), cross-checked with Eurostat, Destatis and the UK Civil Aviation Authority; airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain). The derived connection data is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Data as of: September 2026
- Region text
- Text by HolidayHub, written from Wikivoyage „Korfu“ (1764143) · Wikipedia „Korfu“ (270137322) · Wikidata Q121378. Wikivoyage and Wikipedia are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikidata CC0.
- Data basis
- All figures are approximations derived from open data (crowd level from Eurostat overnight stays, climate from Copernicus/ERA5-Land), not measurements.