Santorini Trail 09 - The Ledge of the Caldera
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
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Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
About this trail
Walking across the Ledge of the Caldera, this most popular route of Santorini will offer hikers a taste of the geology of this island along with a continuous shopping promenade in one cosmopolitan location probably filled with walkers.
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Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/10) (hiking (T1) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL))
- Length (signed)
- 10 km · 6 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 10 km · 6 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- At Firá (Nomós Kykládon, South Aegean) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- Greece
- Continent
- Europe
- Route type
- Local route
- Ref
- 09
- From / to
- Fira → Oia
- SAC scale (OSM)
- hiking
- Route centre
- 36.4410, 25.4027
- Route start
- 36.4183, 25.4323
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 15877154
How it’s scored
Easy (2/10). Official rating: hiking (T1) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
Nearest trails
distance from the trail startSantorini Trail 06 - Megalochori - Pyrgos
2.7 mi · 4.3 km · South Aegean
Santorini Trail 05 - Pyrgos - Ekso Gonia - Mesa Gonia
2.8 mi · 4.5 km · South Aegean
Santorini Trail 04 - Panagia Episkopis - Pyrgos
3.1 mi · 5.1 km · South Aegean
Santorini Trail 01 - Pyrgos - Prophet Elias Monastery - Ancient Thera
3.5 mi · 5.6 km · South Aegean
Santorini Trail 02 - Mesa Gonia - Pyrgos - Emporio
3.6 mi · 5.7 km · South Aegean
Santorini Trail 10 - Finikia - Kolumbos
3.7 mi · 6.0 km · South Aegean