Faroe Islands · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Saltangará.

July leads for comfortable weather in Saltangará: typically 13°C by day, 9.1°C at night, with 87 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly
Typical high13°C
Typical low9.1°C
Rain in July87 mm
Comfort

July

July · August · June

35climate match
Beach

January

January · February · March

5climate match
Outdoors

July

July · August · June

53climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 35days reach only 6.4°C, 18° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan
56.4° / 2°
Feb
56.1° / 1.6°
Mar
56.6° / 2.1°
Apr
57.7° / 3.3°
May
159.5° / 4.9°
Jun
2911.5° / 7.3°
Jul
3513° / 9.1°
Aug
3413.3° / 9.4°
Sep
1812° / 8.2°
Oct
59.7° / 5.8°
Nov
57.8° / 3.5°
Dec
56.6° / 2.1°
Monthly climate evidence for Saltangará — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 5 km away
MonthDayNightRainWet daysSeaDaylightComfortCoverage
January6.4°C2°C185 mm23.67.0°C6 h 025Strong coverage
February6.1°C1.6°C150 mm20.46.7°C8 h 435Strong coverage
March6.6°C2.1°C151 mm21.76.7°C11 h 305Strong coverage
April7.7°C3.3°C122 mm18.27.0°C14 h 405Strong coverage
May9.5°C4.9°C89 mm15.47.5°C17 h 3915Strong coverage
June11.5°C7.3°C91 mm11.68.7°C19 h 4429Good coverage
July13°C9.1°C87 mm15.49.7°C18 h 5035Good coverage
August13.3°C9.4°C107 mm15.210.2°C15 h 5934Good coverage
September12°C8.2°C145 mm18.910.1°C12 h 4918Strong coverage
October9.7°C5.8°C175 mm22.29.5°C9 h 485Strong coverage
November7.8°C3.5°C175 mm22.48.6°C6 h 535Strong coverage
December6.6°C2.1°C186 mm23.27.7°C5 h 095Strong coverage

What has changed

Saltangará runs +0.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan
+0.8
Feb
+0.9
Mar
+1.2
Apr
+0.7
May
+0.3
Jun
+0.5
Jul
+0.7
Aug
+0.5
Sep
+1.2
Oct
+0.8
Nov
+1.5
Dec
+1.1
July daytime highs, 20112020. Last recorded: 12.9°C.
Records at TORSHAVN, 1973–2021
MonthRecord highRecord lowWettest dayWettest / driest monthYears
January11.3°C25 Jan 2016-9.0°C8 Jan 197972 mm28 Jan 1982325 mm2020 · driest 60 mm in 198749
February13.0°C23 Feb 2019-8.3°C26 Feb 200198 mm21 Feb 1987221 mm2011 · driest 22 mm in 198649
March12.3°C27 Mar 2007-9.2°C1 Mar 199856 mm27 Mar 2009218 mm1986 · driest 37 mm in 197449
April18.3°C17 Apr 2003-8.0°C29 Apr 198497 mm24 Apr 1991233 mm2021 · driest 9 mm in 200349
May20.0°C23 May 1977-3.0°C8 May 198043 mm21 May 2001141 mm2015 · driest 11 mm in 198349
June20.0°C4 Jun 19790.0°C28 Jun 197648 mm28 Jun 1996121 mm1998 · driest 4 mm in 198248
July20.2°C18 Jul 19871.0°C4 Jul 198952 mm24 Jul 1988109 mm1985 · driest 12 mm in 200048
August22.0°C21 Aug 19761.0°C29 Aug 198797 mm29 Aug 1985188 mm2011 · driest 28 mm in 198748
September22.0°C15 Sep 19730.4°C29 Sep 1995123 mm16 Sep 1982262 mm1982 · driest 24 mm in 201048
October16.3°C4 Oct 2020-4.0°C10 Oct 198081 mm19 Oct 1982290 mm1978 · driest 42 mm in 199348
November14.7°C16 Nov 1997-5.1°C19 Nov 199694 mm14 Nov 1990262 mm1982 · driest 39 mm in 199648
December12.4°C7 Dec 1997-7.8°C27 Dec 199595 mm22 Dec 1987345 mm1992 · driest 51 mm in 200048
Typical days per month at TORSHAVN, 1991–2020
MonthDays 25°C+Frost nightsHeavy rain (10 mm+)
January064
February074
March064
April032
May0<12
June002
July002
August003
September004
October0<14
November044
December075
How often, not how much — every day in TORSHAVN’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
MonthWarm & dry daysWet daysWashoutsWeek with 3+ wet daysDaytime mean has ranged
January0%77%19%96%4.6–7.6°C
February0%71%16%91%4.3–7.5°C
March0%72%15%88%5.0–7.9°C
April0%59%10%77%6.2–9.0°C
May<1%49%8%63%8.3–10.5°C
June<1%43%9%57%10.3–12.4°C
July<1%48%8%59%12.0–13.9°C
August<1%51%12%67%12.3–14.0°C
September0%64%17%82%10.3–12.8°C
October0%72%19%92%8.3–10.6°C
November0%74%18%96%6.0–8.8°C
December0%77%21%96%4.6–7.8°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1975Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 41-year average. Warmest: 2014. Coolest: 1979.2020

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity
GeoNames 2614304
NOAA station
DAM00006011 · TORSHAVN
Station distance
11.1 km from the place centre
Climate period
1991–2020
Minimum month coverage
20 usable years
Daylight
Calculated from latitude 62.12°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature
NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 5 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit
Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from TORSHAVN is what differs

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