Ideal weather days in Tromsø
The best time to visit Tromsø for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 13 to 16 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Tromsø's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Tromsø, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold312
- Too wet188
- Too windy44
- Too hot0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Tromsø averaged 41 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Norway, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 1. Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in July (up to 18 a month, 44 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 312 a year, mostly in September to June. Another 188 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in September to May. A day can fail more than one test.
Tromsø weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 °C 32 °F | 18 | 7 | 7 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 2 °C 35 °F | 20 | 9 | 3 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 1 °C 33 °F | 22 | 2 | 5 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 5 °C 40 °F | 19 | 2 | 9 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 9 °C 48 °F | 20 | 2 | 4 | 2 of 31 |
| June | 16 °C 60 °F | 11 | 1 | 5 | 8 of 30 |
| July | 19 °C 65 °F | 8 | 0 | 9 | 16 of 31 |
| August | 18 °C 64 °F | 12 | 0 | 5 | 13 of 31 |
| September | 12 °C 54 °F | 18 | 4 | 2 | 2 of 30 |
| October | 5 °C 40 °F | 20 | 4 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| November | 1 °C 33 °F | 23 | 5 | 5 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -1 °C 29 °F | 17 | 9 | 5 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 207 | 44 | 59 | 41 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 38 warm, dry days
- 2024 52 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Tromsø for good weather?
The best time to visit Tromsø for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 13 to 16 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 1. Counted from measured days at Tromso station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Tromsø?
On average 207 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (23 rain days), the driest July (8).
How many sunny days does Tromsø get a year?
About 59 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in April (9).
How warm does Tromsø get?
The median daily high ranged from -1 °C (29 °F) in December to 19 °C (65 °F) in July.
Nearby
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Where is the best climate in Norway?
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Source: Tromso weather station (01026099999), 1 km from the centre of Tromsø, 115 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 83% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.