# Getting married in Mykonos

> A white town of lanes and chapels, windmills on the ridge, Little Venice’s balconies over the water and sandy coves along the south coast.

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Mykonos is a small, dry granite island in the middle of the Cyclades. Its town, Chora, is a maze of whitewashed lanes, blue doors, bougainvillea and little churches; at its edge the old captains’ houses of Little Venice hang their wooden balconies over the sea, below a row of windmills on the ridge. Sandy beaches fill the bays of the south coast, and a short boat ride away lies Delos, the sacred island of Apollo, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Weddings here are lively: a ceremony at a hillside villa with a pool over the sea, in a whitewashed chapel or on the sand of a south-coast cove, then dinner by the water and, this being Mykonos, a party that goes on late.

## When to marry in Mykonos

- **Best:** May, June, September
- **Good with planning:** July, August, October

May, June and September are warm, dry and bright, and the island is open but not yet, or no longer, full. July and August are hot and the busiest, and the meltemi, the dry north wind of the Aegean, blows most often then, sometimes for days — the south-coast beaches are sheltered from it. Most hotels open from late April or May until October, a mild month with the first rain; the wet months run from November to March.

- **Spring:** The island opens for the season, wild flowers edge the stone walls and the hills turn green for a few weeks; mild days, cool evenings, a fresh sea.
- **Summer:** Hot, bright days, the meltemi in the afternoons and the town busy until morning. The famous sunset spots fill up, so plan the portraits around the crowds.
- **Autumn:** September is calmer, the sea still warm from summer; in October the days shorten, the first rain comes and the island closes for winter.

## In numbers

- **Hottest month, average high:** July · 28.5°C — HNMS: https://www.emy.gr/en/climatic-data
- **Average high in the best months:** May 22.3°C · Jun 26.8°C · Sep 25.7°C — HNMS: https://www.emy.gr/en/climatic-data
- **Sunset on 21 June:** 20:42 (Mykonos town) — NOAA: https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/
- **UNESCO World Heritage:** [Delos](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/530) (1990)

Weather station: Mykonos, normals 1991–2020 · Checked 15 October 2026

## Where couples marry here

The kinds of places — ask your photographer which ones they know well.

- **Villas with a view:** White hillside villas with a terrace and an infinity pool over the sea — the ceremony, the dinner and the guests’ rooms in one place.
- **Chapels:** Small whitewashed churches in the town and out on the hills and headlands, for a ceremony with a few guests or for portraits.
- **Beaches of the south coast:** Sandy coves sheltered from the north wind, with places to eat on the beach — a ceremony on the sand, dinner as the light goes.
- **Chora and Little Venice:** The old town’s lanes early in the morning, the windmills and the balconies of Little Venice, for portraits before or after the day.

## How the light falls

Mykonos town faces west, and its sunsets are famous: from Little Venice and the windmills the sun goes down into the sea, in late June around twenty to nine. After a day of meltemi the air is swept clean and the light sharp; at midday it is hard on the white walls. Only early in the morning are the lanes of Chora empty and softly lit.

## Getting there

Mykonos has its own airport, a short flight from Athens, with direct flights from much of Europe in season; ferries come from Piraeus and Rafina near Athens and from the other Cyclades, Santorini included. Distances are short, but taxis are scarce in high summer, so arrange transfers for the guests.

## Photographers in Mykonos

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## 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)
- [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)
- [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)