Vopnafjörður weather by month & the best time to visit
🇮🇸 Iceland · seaside town · oceanic / maritime climate
Vopnafjörður is short on reliable sunshine. Its best month is July (Score 34/100) — for stronger sun, try one of the nearby alternatives below.
Jump to: month-by-month table · sea temperature · nearby alternatives · embed this data
- Sun hours / year
- 1,340
- Sunniest month
- July
- Peak score
- 34/100
- Rain / year
- 1,165 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈4.3 m
- Midday UV at peak
- 3 (moderate)
- Sea at warmest
- 7°C / 45°F
- Population
- 3k
- Elevation
- Sea level
When is the best time to visit Vopnafjörður?
Vopnafjörður never gets truly sunny weather: July is as good as it gets at 34/100, 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 Vopnafjörður?
Vopnafjörður isn't a sunny place by world standards: about 1,340 hours of sunshine a year. July (34/100) is noticeably better than January (0). It ranks #3 of 9 destinations in Iceland for annual sunshine, above the national median of 1,318 hours. The year's 1,165 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 | 1° / 34°F | -5° / 23°F | 101 mm | 0 | 2° / 36°F |
| February | 0 | 1° / 34°F | -4° / 25°F | 82 mm | 0 | 2° / 36°F |
| March | 0 | 1° / 34°F | -4° / 25°F | 92 mm | 1 | 2° / 36°F |
| April | 0 | 4° / 39°F | -2° / 28°F | 80 mm | 2 | 2° / 36°F |
| May | 0 | 7° / 45°F | 1° / 34°F | 85 mm | 3 | 4° / 39°F |
| June | 24 | 12° / 54°F | 6° / 43°F | 70 mm | 3 | 5° / 41°F |
| July | 34 | 14° / 57°F | 8° / 46°F | 96 mm | 3 | 7° / 45°F |
| August | 28 | 13° / 55°F | 7° / 45°F | 98 mm | 2 | 7° / 45°F |
| September | 5 | 9° / 48°F | 4° / 39°F | 110 mm | 1 | 7° / 45°F |
| October | 0 | 5° / 41°F | 1° / 34°F | 122 mm | 0 | 6° / 43°F |
| November | 0 | 2° / 36°F | -3° / 27°F | 117 mm | 0 | 4° / 39°F |
| December | 0 | 1° / 34°F | -4° / 25°F | 112 mm | 0 | 2° / 36°F |
Sea temperature in Vopnafjörður by month
The sea off Vopnafjörður is warmest in July at around 7°C / 45°F, and coolest in January at 2°C / 36°F. It never reaches comfortable swimming temperatures (21°C+). Month-by-month sea-surface temperatures are in the Sea column of the table above.
See Vopnafjörður on the interactive sunshine globe →
Nearby places for sunshine
- Reykjavík Iceland · 378 km · best in Jul · 1,456 h sun/yr
- Reykjavík Iceland · 414 km · best in Jul · 1,318 h sun/yr
- Vágar Faroe Islands · 550 km · best in Aug · 998 h sun/yr
- Ålesund Norway · 1,070 km · best in Jul · 1,230 h sun/yr
- Inverness United Kingdom · 1,070 km · best in Jul · 1,074 h sun/yr
- Molde Norway · 1,112 km · best in Jul · 1,233 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Egilsstaðir Iceland · 53 km · 1,333 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Þórshöfn Iceland · 60 km · 974 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Akureyri Iceland · 148 km · 1,550 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Höfn Iceland · 159 km · 1,200 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Grímsey/Sandvík Iceland · 169 km · 1,074 h sun/yr · best in Aug
Put the Vopnafjörður sunshine badge on your site
A compact badge showing Vopnafjörður's sunshine at a glance — free to embed under CC BY 4.0. Paste this wherever you'd like it to appear:
Live preview — this is exactly what your readers see: