Greece holiday warning as Foreign Office shares advice on scorching heatwave

Greece is set to be hit by a scorching heatwave within weeks (Image: WXCharts) UK tourists have been warned to watch out for wildfires as Greece is set to be hit by a searing heatwave within weeks. New weather maps from WXCharts show Greece is forecast to be hit by temperatures as high as 38C on August 22. Temperatures in several holiday hotspots - including Athens, Kalamata and Crete - are set to see temperatures in the mid-thirties.

A number of wildfires have burned in Greece over the past month, including one fire in the Lindos area of Rhodes on Tuesday. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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