According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Finland is April to May and September to October. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for Finland
- Best months
- April to May and September to October
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Finland is best for
Explore Helsinki's design and Suomenlinna fortress, relax by serene lakes, or visit Arctic Lapland.
- Prices
- €€€ · more expensive than in Slovakia
Weather in Finland by month
Monthly averages around Helsinki; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −3 °C | some rain (54 mm) |
| February | about −4 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| March | about −2 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| April best | about 3 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| May best | about 9 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| June | about 14 °C | some rain (66 mm) |
| July | about 18 °C | some rain (57 mm) |
| August | about 17 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| September best | about 13 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| October best | about 7 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| November | about 3 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| December | about 0 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Finland
- Capital
- Helsinki
- Languages
- Finnish and Swedish
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time
- UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +358
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
Our posts about Finland
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