# Getting married in Corfu & the Ionian Islands > A Venetian old town, green hills of olive and cypress over clear coves, and the islands of the Ionian Sea to the south. - URL: https://lensandvows.com/greece/corfu - Greece: https://lensandvows.com/greece (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/greece.md) - Português: https://lensandvows.com/pt/greece/corfu.md - Español: https://lensandvows.com/es/greece/corfu.md - Italiano: https://lensandvows.com/it/greece/corfu.md - Deutsch: https://lensandvows.com/de/greece/corfu.md - Français: https://lensandvows.com/fr/greece/corfu.md - Lens & Vows: https://lensandvows.com/ Corfu, off Greece’s north-west coast and only a strait away from Albania, is one of the greenest Greek islands: hills of olive and cypress trees, clear coves on every side, and an old town that Venice ruled for four centuries — tall shuttered houses, narrow lanes, arcades and fortresses above the sea, a UNESCO World Heritage site. To the south lie the other Ionian islands: little Paxos with its harbours among the olives, then Kefalonia and Zakynthos, with pale cliffs above beaches of turquoise water. Weddings here gather around a villa or an old country house among the olive trees, a garden over the sea or a small church on a headland — with dinner outside under the trees, and the old town’s lanes for the portraits. ## When to marry in Corfu & the Ionian Islands - **Best:** May, June, September - **Good with planning:** July, August, October May, June and September are warm and mostly dry, with the sea good for swimming from June. July and August are hot — the old town most of all — and the driest and busiest months. Corfu gets more than twice the rain of the Cyclades, most of it from October to March: the autumn storms begin in late September, and October can bring several wet days — the price of the island’s green. - **Spring:** The island at its greenest, with wild flowers under the olive trees. Easter in Corfu town is famous: processions with brass bands and, on Holy Saturday, clay pots thrown from the balconies. April can still be showery. - **Summer:** Hot, bright days and warm nights, the sea at its warmest and the beaches at their busiest; a breeze off the sea cools many afternoons. - **Autumn:** September keeps a warm sea and fewer visitors; the first storms come in late September and October, and from November nets are spread under the olive trees for the harvest. ## In numbers - **Hottest month, average high:** August · 31.1°C — WMO (NOAA): https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-old/WMO/1961-1990/RA-VI/GR/16641.TXT - **Average high in the best months:** May 23.8°C · Jun 27.9°C · Sep 27.8°C — WMO (NOAA): https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-old/WMO/1961-1990/RA-VI/GR/16641.TXT - **Days with 1 mm of rain or more, best months:** May 4.2 · Jun 2.1 · Sep 4.2 — WMO (NOAA): https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/normals-old/WMO/1961-1990/RA-VI/GR/16641.TXT - **Sunset on 21 June:** 21:11 (Corfu town) — NOAA: https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/ - **UNESCO World Heritage:** [Old Town of Corfu](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/978) (2007) Weather station: Kerkyra, normals 1961–1990 · Checked 15 October 2026 ## Where couples marry here The kinds of places — ask your photographer which ones they know well. - **Villas over the sea:** Villas with gardens and pools on the hills above the coves — the ceremony, the dinner and the guests’ rooms in one place. - **Olive groves and country houses:** Old manor houses and estates among centuries-old olive trees, with long tables under the branches and lights strung through the trees. - **Corfu’s old town:** Venetian lanes, arcades and squares, the fortresses above the sea and the little monastery on its islet below Kanoni — for portraits before or after the day. - **Coves and the other islands:** Turquoise coves under green cliffs on Corfu’s west coast, Paxos’s small harbours, and the white cliffs and beaches of Kefalonia and Zakynthos — by boat or on foot. ## How the light falls Ionian light is softer than the Aegean’s: more green, more moisture in the air and, on summer afternoons, a light haze. Corfu town faces east across the strait to the mountains of the mainland, which catch the last pink light; for the sun going down into the sea, go to the west coast. In late June it sets a little after nine; midsummer middays are hot and hard, so portraits belong to the morning and the last hour. ## Getting there Corfu, Kefalonia and Zakynthos have airports with direct flights from much of Europe in summer, and Athens is about an hour away by air. Ferries cross to Corfu from Igoumenitsa on the mainland and from Italy’s Adriatic ports; Paxos is reached by boat from Corfu or Igoumenitsa. The islands are far apart, so choose one for the whole wedding, and plan cars or a coach for the guests. ## Photographers in Corfu & the Ionian Islands The first photographers in Corfu & the Ionian Islands are joining now. Tell our concierge your date and your plans — it checks who is free and fits. https://lensandvows.com/photographers?region=corfu https://lensandvows.com/photographers?region=corfu&sort=rating (Highest rated) ## Read before you plan - [What a wedding photographer costs in Greece, from Athens to the islands](https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-photographer-cost-greece): Published prices for a wedding photographer in Greece run from €500 for two hours to €9,000 for a full day. The figures with sources and dates, by length of day and island by island, what moves the price — ferries, the meltemi, ΦΠΑ — and how paying works on Lens & Vows. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-photographer-cost-greece.md) - [Getting married in Greece as foreigners: civil, Orthodox or symbolic](https://lensandvows.com/journal/getting-married-in-greece): How couples who don’t live in Greece marry there legally: documents and licence, Santorini, Mykonos and Crete, Orthodox and same-sex weddings, symbolic ceremonies and the photographer. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/getting-married-in-greece.md) - [The best time to get married in Greece: month by month, region by region](https://lensandvows.com/journal/best-time-to-marry-in-greece): Official climate normals, the meltemi, the dates Orthodox churches hold no weddings in 2027, the public holidays, and 2027’s sunset and golden hour from Corfu to Rhodes. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/best-time-to-marry-in-greece.md) - [How to choose a wedding photographer: the steps, and the questions to ask](https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer): The decision in order — whole weddings, style, availability, the package, the contract and deposit, cancellation, delivery and a conversation — then a checklist of questions, with why each one matters. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer.md) - [Where to elope in Greece: 13 places, from Santorini’s caldera to the Mani](https://lensandvows.com/journal/where-to-elope-in-greece): Thirteen named places across the Cyclades, Athens, Crete, the Ionian, Rhodes and the Peloponnese — what each looks like, how you reach it, when the light is right, and which tickets, permits, protected-beach rules and winds to plan around. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/where-to-elope-in-greece.md) - [Wedding venues in Greece: caldera terraces, chapels, beach clubs and olive estates](https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-venues-greece): What couples marry in across Greece — cliff-top terraces and wineries, whitewashed chapels, beach clubs, olive estates, island villas, resorts and old towns — with seventeen places that say on their own sites they host weddings, which of them can hold the legal ceremony, and the rules for chapels, beaches and ancient sites. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-venues-greece.md)