Finland · 66.50°N 25.73°E · 30-year monthly averages, judged against the Warm preset (highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers)
The best time to visit Rovaniemi is July, with highs of 20 °C68 °F and nights of 11 °C52 °F, and rainfall of about 72 mm2.8 in a month.
Rain is spread across the year, 32–72 mm1.3–2.8 in a month. July is the wettest month and February the driest. July is the hottest month (highs of 20 °C68 °F) and January the coldest (-8 °C18 °F); nights are below freezing from October to April.
The figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 66.50, 25.73. This is a climate guide, not a forecast.
Pick the weather you like. Every month is then judged against it: temperature above the month names, rain below.
Good time to go for a Warm holiday: July.
Open Rovaniemi on the interactive map ↗ the same verdicts for any place on Earth, in any month
Reading the chart. Gold means good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour shows the reason it does not. The temperature bar can be too cold or too hot; the rain bar can be too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar means that half fits but the other half does not. A gold month name means both halves fit.
What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the month's average daily high (the afternoon), judged against the preset's band (highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Rovaniemi's own year, not by raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and at least 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month that the preset does not allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season: 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate where the wettest month has at least three times the rain of the driest. Every monsoon month is also a rainy-season month; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.
| Month | Rain | High | Low | Season | Warm verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 401.6 | -817 | -154 | dry | too cold |
| February | 321.3 | -818 | -155 | dry | too cold |
| March | 321.3 | -228 | -1014 | dry | too cold |
| April | 321.3 | 337 | -424 | dry | too cold |
| May | 401.6 | 1050 | 235 | dry | too cold |
| June | 562.2 | 1763 | 846 | dry | too cold |
| July | 722.8 | 2067 | 1151 | showers | good |
| August | 722.8 | 1661 | 947 | showers | too cold |
| September | 642.5 | 1050 | 438 | showers | too cold |
| October | 642.5 | 337 | -228 | showers | too cold |
| November | 562.2 | -327 | -817 | dry | too cold |
| December | 481.9 | -620 | -138 | dry | too cold |
| Looking for | Rule | Months that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | highs 19–28 °C66–82 °F, dry or showers | July |
| Tropical | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, any rain except monsoon | |
| Beach | highs 28–38 °C82–100 °F, dry or showers | |
| Cool | highs 3–19 °C37–66 °F, any rain except monsoon | April to June and August to October |
| Snow | highs below 3 °C37 °F, any rain | November to March |
Not a clear one. Rain is spread across the year, 32–72 mm1.3–2.8 in a month. July is the wettest month and February the driest.
July is the hottest month (highs of 20 °C68 °F) and January the coldest (-8 °C18 °F); nights are below freezing from October to April. Annual rainfall is about 608 mm24 in.
The nearest destinations that fit the Warm preset in the months when Rovaniemi does not:
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