Longyearbyen weather by month & the best time to visit
🇳🇴 Norway · seaside town · subpolar / tundra climate
Longyearbyen is short on reliable sunshine. Its best month is January (Score 0/100) — for stronger sun, try one of the nearby alternatives below.
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- Sunniest month
- January
- Peak score
- 0/100
- Rain / year
- 684 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈4 m
- Midday UV at peak
- 2 (low)
- Sea at warmest
- 10°C / 50°F
- Population
- 2k
- Elevation
- 25 m
When is the best time to visit Longyearbyen?
Longyearbyen never gets truly sunny weather: January is as good as it gets at 0/100, 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 Longyearbyen?
Longyearbyen never scores well for sunshine: even January, its best month, reaches only 0/100. Conditions barely change through the year — only 0 Sunshine Score points separate January from January. It is one of 46 destinations Sunshine Map tracks in Norway. The year's 684 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 | Sea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | -8° / 18°F | -13° / 9°F | 61 mm | 0 | 1° / 34°F |
| February | 0 | -9° / 16°F | -14° / 7°F | 52 mm | 0 | -1° / 30°F |
| March | 0 | -10° / 14°F | -16° / 3°F | 54 mm | 0 | -2° / 28°F |
| April | 0 | -6° / 21°F | -11° / 12°F | 42 mm | 1 | -2° / 28°F |
| May | 0 | -1° / 30°F | -4° / 25°F | 46 mm | 1 | 3° / 37°F |
| June | 0 | 3° / 37°F | 1° / 34°F | 39 mm | 2 | 5° / 41°F |
| July | 0 | 7° / 45°F | 4° / 39°F | 59 mm | 2 | 8° / 46°F |
| August | 0 | 6° / 43°F | 3° / 37°F | 61 mm | 1 | 10° / 50°F |
| September | 0 | 2° / 36°F | -1° / 30°F | 73 mm | 0 | 6° / 43°F |
| October | 0 | -3° / 27°F | -6° / 21°F | 67 mm | 0 | 4° / 39°F |
| November | 0 | -5° / 23°F | -10° / 14°F | 64 mm | 0 | 2° / 36°F |
| December | 0 | -7° / 19°F | -12° / 10°F | 66 mm | 0 | 1° / 34°F |
Sea temperature in Longyearbyen by month
The sea off Longyearbyen is warmest in August at around 10°C / 50°F, and coolest in March at -2°C / 28°F. It never reaches comfortable swimming temperatures (21°C+). Month-by-month sea-surface temperatures are in the Sea column of the table above.
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Alta Norway · 948 km · best in Jul · 1,800 h sun/yr
- Tromsø Norway · 958 km · best in Jul · 1,713 h sun/yr
- Harstad/Narvik Norway · 1,085 km · best in Jul · 1,431 h sun/yr
- Ivalo Finland · 1,131 km · best in Jul · 1,726 h sun/yr
- Murmansk Russia · 1,174 km · best in Jul · 1,514 h sun/yr
- Kittilä Finland · 1,208 km · best in Jul · 1,732 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Honningsvåg Norway · 859 km · best in Jul
- Hammerfest Norway · 874 km · best in Jul
- Mehamn Norway · 877 km · best in Aug
- Hasvik Norway · 884 km · best in Jul
- Berlevåg Norway · 908 km · best in Jul
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