Weekly note

Norway in August

4 of the 5 destinations in Norway are in season in August: 3 a sweet spot, 0 good, 1 ok.

August is a sweet spot at 3 of these 5 places: Oslo, Trondheim and Svalbard. Best avoided at 1 of them.

Ranked for August

#PlaceVerdict High Rain Why
1 Oslo sweet spotbusy 20° 9d busier than usual
2 Trondheim sweet spotbusy 17° cool 14d busier than usual
3 Lofoten okbusy 16° cool 16d busier than usual
4 Svalbard sweet spot 9° cool 9d 9C max, 9 rainy days

Not this August

Other months for Norway

August elsewhere

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about Norway as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.