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Lofoten in May
ok · worth considering
The year in Lofoten
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- JanJLofoten in January: avoid
- FebFLofoten in February: avoid
- MarMLofoten in March: avoid
- AprALofoten in April: avoid
- MayMLofoten in May: ok
- JunJLofoten in June: ok, busy
- JulJLofoten in July: sweet spot, busy
- AugALofoten in August: ok, busy
- SepSLofoten in September: ok
- OctOLofoten in October: avoid
- NovNLofoten in November: avoid
- DecDLofoten in December: avoid
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 9°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 4°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 6°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 14 · 115 mm |
| Humidity | 77% |
| Sunshine | 11.0 h/day |
| Daylight | 21.1 h/day |
| Hiking | 8 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C |
| Crowds | 80 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Svolvær, 41 km from the airport (LKN): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in May
- Labor Day 1 May 2027
- Ascension Day 6 May 2027
- Pentecost 16 May 2027
- Constitution Day 17 May 2027
- Pentecost Monday 17 May 2027
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Lofoten in pictures
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Jörg Hempel, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
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Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Virtual-Pano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 4°C.
- Rain gear you will actually use: about 14 rainy days and 115 mm.
- Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.
- Humidity averages 77%; breathable fabrics dry faster.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Norwegian krone. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise normal security precautions. US State Department: Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions. Everything for Norway: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Lofoten: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
May elsewhere
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