Akureyri weather by month & the best time to visit
🇮🇸 Iceland · small town · oceanic / maritime climate
Akureyri is short on reliable sunshine. Its best month is July (Score 29/100) — for stronger sun, try one of the nearby alternatives below.
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- Sun hours / year
- 1,550
- Sunniest month
- July
- Peak score
- 29/100
- Rain / year
- 1,256 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈4.9 m
- Midday UV at peak
- 3 (moderate)
- Population
- 19k
- Elevation
- Sea level
When is the best time to visit Akureyri?
Akureyri never gets truly sunny weather: July is as good as it gets at 29/100, and January is the low point (0/100). If sunshine is the point of the trip, the nearby alternatives below do better.
How sunny is Akureyri?
Akureyri isn't a sunny place by world standards: about 1,550 hours of sunshine a year. July (29/100) is noticeably better than January (0). Akureyri is the sunniest of the 9 destinations tracked in Iceland. The year's 1,256 mm of rain spreads fairly evenly across the months, with no pronounced dry season.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0° / 32°F | -5° / 23°F | 110 mm | 0 |
| February | 0 | 0° / 32°F | -5° / 23°F | 96 mm | 0 |
| March | 0 | 1° / 34°F | -5° / 23°F | 100 mm | 1 |
| April | 0 | 3° / 37°F | -3° / 27°F | 87 mm | 2 |
| May | 0 | 6° / 43°F | 1° / 34°F | 86 mm | 3 |
| June | 25 | 12° / 54°F | 6° / 43°F | 71 mm | 3 |
| July | 29 | 13° / 55°F | 8° / 46°F | 98 mm | 3 |
| August | 23 | 12° / 54°F | 7° / 45°F | 104 mm | 2 |
| September | 5 | 9° / 48°F | 4° / 39°F | 126 mm | 1 |
| October | 0 | 4° / 39°F | 0° / 32°F | 132 mm | 0 |
| November | 0 | 1° / 34°F | -4° / 25°F | 125 mm | 0 |
| December | 0 | 0° / 32°F | -5° / 23°F | 121 mm | 0 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Reykjavík Iceland · 249 km · best in Jul · 1,456 h sun/yr
- Reykjavík Iceland · 284 km · best in Jul · 1,318 h sun/yr
- Vágar Faroe Islands · 661 km · best in Aug · 998 h sun/yr
- Inverness United Kingdom · 1,163 km · best in Jul · 1,074 h sun/yr
- Ålesund Norway · 1,215 km · best in Jul · 1,230 h sun/yr
- Aberdeen United Kingdom · 1,256 km · best in Jul · 1,300 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Grímsey/Sandvík Iceland · 99 km · 1,074 h sun/yr · best in Aug
- Þórshöfn Iceland · 139 km · 974 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Vopnafjörður Iceland · 148 km · 1,340 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Egilsstaðir Iceland · 174 km · 1,333 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Höfn Iceland · 202 km · 1,200 h sun/yr · best in Jul
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