Plan
DownloadIceland by month.
There is no bad month, only the wrong jacket. Twelve honest pages from people who live here: what the light does, what the weather does, what's on, what's open, and what it costs. Numbers from the Icelandic Met Office, events from the organisers, opinions from the locals.
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January
High 3 °C, low −2 °C · 4–7 hours of daylight
Quiet, cheap, dark, and the northern lights are on every clear night.
February
High 3 °C, low −2 °C · 7–10 hours of daylight
The locals' pick for a first winter trip: real daylight, full aurora season, prices still low.
March
High 4 °C, low −1 °C · 10–13 hours of daylight
Daylight tips into surplus, the aurora still shows early in the month, and Beer Day opens it.
April
High 7 °C, low 1 °C · 13–16 hours of daylight
Shoulder season: unstable weather, empty roads, puffins returning, and a public holiday for summer that arrives in the snow.
May
High 10 °C, low 4 °C · 16–20 hours of daylight
Spring proper: waterfalls at full snowmelt, birds back, nights that never quite get dark, and prices only starting to climb.
June
High 13 °C, low 7 °C · 20–21 hours of daylight
Midnight sun, National Day, the highlands opening, and the country at its busiest and brightest.
July
High 15 °C, low 9 °C · 19–21 hours of daylight
The warmest month, every road open, full midnight sun, and Reykjavík at its most crowded.
August
High 14 °C, low 9 °C · 15–19 hours of daylight
Still summer, a little quieter, wild blueberries in the hills, and the aurora returns in the last week.
September
High 11 °C, low 6 °C · 12–15 hours of daylight
Aurora is back, the birch turns gold, the roads are still open and the crowds are gone.
October
High 8 °C, low 3 °C · 9–12 hours of daylight
Long dark nights for the aurora, most roads still open, prices at the annual low, and the wettest weeks of the year.
November
High 5 °C, low 0 °C · 5–9 hours of daylight
Cheap, dark and moody: a Reykjavík city break with aurora hunts, Airwaves, and the Christmas lights switching on.
December
High 3 °C, low −2 °C · 4–5 hours of daylight
The shortest days, the Yule Lads, Christmas markets, and the biggest amateur fireworks display on Earth.
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