Iceland · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Eskifjörður.

August leads for comfortable weather in Eskifjörður: typically 11.4°C by day, 7.5°C at night, with 168 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high11.4°C

Typical low7.5°C

Rain in August168 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

17climate match

Beach

January

January · February · March

5climate match

Outdoors

August

August · June · July

34climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 17 — days reach only 4.1°C, 20° 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

54.1° / -0.7°

Feb

53.8° / -1°

Mar

53.7° / -0.9°

Apr

54.5° / 0.1°

May

56.7° / 2.3°

Jun

139.1° / 4.8°

Jul

1511° / 6.9°

Aug

1711.4° / 7.5°

Sep

510.3° / 6.2°

Oct

57.2° / 3.2°

Nov

55.3° / 1°

Dec

54.1° / -0.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Eskifjörður — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 29 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.1°C	-0.7°C	176 mm	19	4.2°C	4 h 53	5	Strong coverage
February	3.8°C	-1°C	137 mm	16.3	4.1°C	8 h 13	5	Strong coverage
March	3.7°C	-0.9°C	135 mm	16	4.0°C	11 h 26	5	Strong coverage
April	4.5°C	0.1°C	135 mm	15.1	4.4°C	15 h 03	5	Strong coverage
May	6.7°C	2.3°C	131 mm	13.6	4.8°C	18 h 40	5	Strong coverage
June	9.1°C	4.8°C	120 mm	12	6.0°C	21 h 56	13	Strong coverage
July	11°C	6.9°C	162 mm	14.1	7.1°C	20 h 20	15	Strong coverage
August	11.4°C	7.5°C	168 mm	13.7	7.9°C	16 h 36	17	Strong coverage
September	10.3°C	6.2°C	197 mm	15.9	7.3°C	12 h 56	5	Strong coverage
October	7.2°C	3.2°C	229 mm	18.8	6.3°C	9 h 28	5	Strong coverage
November	5.3°C	1°C	205 mm	19.2	5.4°C	6 h	5	Strong coverage
December	4.1°C	-0.5°C	184 mm	19.5	4.7°C	3 h 37	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Eskifjörður runs +1.3°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

+1.4

Feb

+1.3

Mar

+1.9

Apr

+1.2

May

+1.5

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+1.0

Sep

+1.8

Oct

+0.8

Nov

+1.5

Dec

+0.8

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 13.5°C.

Records at DALATANGI, 1949–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	18.8°C14 Jan 1992	-16.5°C2 Jan 1968	84 mm9 Jan 1983	341 mm1950 · driest 7 mm in 1963	78
February	18.1°C17 Feb 1998	-16.9°C6 Feb 1969	86 mm2 Feb 1970	266 mm1974 · driest 15 mm in 1965	78
March	20.4°C18 Mar 2021	-17.1°C8 Mar 1969	68 mm13 Mar 2001	251 mm1977 · driest 21 mm in 1962	78
April	19.1°C3 Apr 2007	-19.2°C1 Apr 1968	82 mm29 Apr 2010	231 mm1961 · driest 21 mm in 1978	78
May	21.5°C26 May 1956	-7.6°C6 May 1968	80 mm14 May 2017	360 mm2011 · driest 10 mm in 1951	78
June	22.5°C26 Jun 2021	-1.9°C1 Jun 1975	92 mm2 Jun 2017	267 mm2017 · driest 7 mm in 1970	78
July	23.5°C27 Jul 1982	1.0°C7 Jul 1968	149 mm3 Jul 1977	447 mm1950 · driest 8 mm in 2000	77
August	25.1°C28 Aug 1976	1.4°C21 Aug 1964	138 mm5 Aug 2009	481 mm1985 · driest 12 mm in 1976	77
September	26.0°C12 Sep 1949	-1.7°C30 Sep 1969	160 mm17 Sep 1980	430 mm1951 · driest 22 mm in 1976	77
October	23.5°C1 Oct 1973	-8.6°C30 Oct 1968	200 mm3 Oct 1983	504 mm1983 · driest 23 mm in 1964	77
November	22.7°C12 Nov 1999	-10.4°C28 Nov 1955	87 mm13 Nov 1968	379 mm2018 · driest 27 mm in 1952	77
December	16.6°C3 Dec 1981	-15.4°C18 Dec 1973	72 mm24 Dec 1955	325 mm1972 · driest 39 mm in 1957	77

Typical days per month at DALATANGI, 1991–2020
Month	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	16	5
February	16	4
March	17	4
April	13	3
May	5	3
June	<1	2
July	0	4
August	0	4
September	<1	5
October	5	7
November	11	6
December	16	6

How often, not how much — every day in DALATANGI’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	55%	16%	73%	1.1–5.5°C
February	0%	50%	13%	65%	1.1–5.4°C
March	0%	48%	12%	68%	0.8–6.2°C
April	0%	41%	10%	52%	2.2–6.4°C
May	<1%	37%	9%	47%	4.1–8.2°C
June	<1%	35%	9%	38%	7.4–10.8°C
July	<1%	36%	11%	44%	9.3–12.4°C
August	<1%	39%	13%	51%	9.5–12.6°C
September	<1%	46%	17%	63%	7.9–11.4°C
October	<1%	54%	20%	72%	5.6–8.7°C
November	0%	56%	18%	75%	3.1–6.9°C
December	0%	56%	16%	77%	1.5–5.5°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.

1949Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 75-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1979.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 2632028
NOAA station: IC000004097 · DALATANGI
Station distance: 29.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 65.07°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 29 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 DALATANGI is what differs

Egilsstaðir→Neskaupstaður→Reyðarfjörður→Vopnafjörður→Seyðisfjörður→Fellabaer→

Or put two places side by side: Eskifjörður vs Egilsstaðir

Best time to visitEskifjörður.

August

January

August

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Eskifjörður runs +1.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Eskifjörður.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Eskifjörður runs +1.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.