Norway · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Smellror.

July leads for comfortable weather in Smellror: typically 12.3°C by day, 8°C at night, with 54 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high12.3°C

Typical low8°C

Rain in July54 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · September

41climate match

Beach

January

January · February · March

5climate match

Outdoors

August

August · July · September

63climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 41 — days reach only -1.2°C, 25° 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

5-1.2° / -6°

Feb

5-1.8° / -6.5°

Mar

5-0.4° / -4.5°

Apr

52.2° / -1.6°

May

105.8° / 1.8°

Jun

279.1° / 5°

Jul

4112.3° / 8°

Aug

4112.3° / 8.2°

Sep

299.8° / 5.9°

Oct

55° / 1.5°

Nov

51.7° / -2.2°

Dec

50.2° / -4.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Smellror — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 4 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-1.2°C	-6°C	58 mm	14.9	4.3°C	none	5	Strong coverage
February	-1.8°C	-6.5°C	50 mm	12.7	3.7°C	6 h 52	5	Strong coverage
March	-0.4°C	-4.5°C	52 mm	13.3	3.5°C	11 h 14	5	Strong coverage
April	2.2°C	-1.6°C	40 mm	10.5	3.5°C	16 h 02	5	Strong coverage
May	5.8°C	1.8°C	36 mm	9.3	4.5°C	23 h 23	10	Strong coverage
June	9.1°C	5°C	46 mm	8.3	6.5°C	24 h	27	Strong coverage
July	12.3°C	8°C	54 mm	8.9	9.1°C	24 h	41	Strong coverage
August	12.3°C	8.2°C	55 mm	8.6	10.0°C	18 h 20	41	Strong coverage
September	9.8°C	5.9°C	45 mm	10.4	8.7°C	13 h 12	29	Strong coverage
October	5°C	1.5°C	73 mm	15.7	7.4°C	8 h 38	5	Strong coverage
November	1.7°C	-2.2°C	52 mm	12.9	6.2°C	2 h 59	5	Strong coverage
December	0.2°C	-4.3°C	61 mm	14.4	5.3°C	none	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Smellror runs +1.8°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

+1.7

Feb

+1.9

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+1.6

May

+2.3

Jun

+1.3

Jul

+1.8

Aug

+2.3

Sep

+2.5

Oct

+1.6

Nov

+1.8

Dec

+1.7

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 13.7°C.

Records at VARDOE, 1900–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	7.3°C6 Jan 2006	-22.5°C11 Jan 1908	50 mm15 Jan 1918	166 mm1989 · driest 6 mm in 1938	126
February	6.9°C7 Feb 2025	-22.7°C5 Feb 1929	38 mm5 Feb 1908	134 mm1909 · driest 3 mm in 1951	126
March	8.4°C30 Mar 1934	-20.5°C25 Mar 1953	32 mm5 Mar 1933	134 mm2020 · driest 5 mm in 1974	126
April	11.7°C20 Apr 2003	-14.4°C2 Apr 1912	25 mm30 Apr 1917	112 mm2020 · driest 8 mm in 1937	126
May	21.1°C18 May 2010	-8.7°C7 May 1941	36 mm9 May 1914	79 mm1990 · driest 1 mm in 1920	127
June	25.0°C13 Jun 1992	-2.6°C2 Jun 1907	44 mm26 Jun 1991	109 mm1977 · driest 5 mm in 1972	127
July	27.0°C20 Jul 1987	-1.6°C30 Jul 1936	38 mm15 Jul 1992	135 mm2001 · driest 2 mm in 1942	126
August	25.1°C2 Aug 2003	0.5°C31 Aug 1908	46 mm6 Aug 1986	177 mm1919 · driest 1 mm in 1945	125
September	19.9°C1 Sep 1938	-4.8°C30 Sep 1939	35 mm22 Sep 2025	146 mm1921 · driest 14 mm in 1911	125
October	13.8°C11 Oct 2005	-11.1°C31 Oct 1926	34 mm15 Oct 1900	165 mm1920 · driest 13 mm in 1912	125
November	10.4°C9 Nov 1975	-14.8°C29 Nov 2002	29 mm14 Nov 1953	163 mm1988 · driest 12 mm in 1920	125
December	7.3°C22 Dec 2006	-20.1°C22 Dec 1919	26 mm28 Dec 1965	162 mm1916 · driest 5 mm in 1969	125

Typical days per month at VARDOE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	30	<1
February	0	27	<1
March	0	29	<1
April	0	20	<1
May	0	7	<1
June	0	0	1
July	<1	0	2
August	0	0	2
September	0	<1	<1
October	0	9	2
November	0	22	<1
December	0	28	<1

How often, not how much — every day in VARDOE’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%	44%	3%	59%	-3.6–0.0°C
February	0%	44%	2%	58%	-4.9–0.0°C
March	0%	39%	1%	53%	-3.1–0.9°C
April	0%	32%	1%	40%	-0.5–3.5°C
May	0%	28%	2%	33%	3.0–7.2°C
June	<1%	26%	3%	30%	6.9–10.7°C
July	3%	27%	4%	33%	9.7–14.6°C
August	1%	31%	5%	42%	10.2–13.9°C
September	0%	40%	4%	56%	7.3–10.8°C
October	0%	45%	3%	63%	2.6–6.7°C
November	0%	42%	3%	56%	-0.3–3.2°C
December	0%	43%	3%	60%	-2.8–1.2°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.

1932Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 88-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1966.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 777619
NOAA station: NOE00105494 · VARDOE
Station distance: 3.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 70.39°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 4 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 VARDOE is what differs

Vadsø→Kiberg→Været→Svartnes→Store Salttjern→Skallelv→

Or put two places side by side: Smellror vs Vadsø

Best time to visitSmellror.