According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Iceland is May to September. Plan 8–12 days.
Best months for Iceland
- Best months
- May to September
- How long to stay
- 8–12 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Iceland is best for
Scenic Ring Road drives with dramatic waterfalls, geysers, glaciers, and black-sand beaches.
- Prices
- €€€ · more expensive than in Slovakia
Weather in Iceland by month
Monthly averages around Reykjavík; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 0 °C | a lot of rain (165 mm) |
| February | about 0 °C | a lot of rain (162 mm) |
| March | about 1 °C | a lot of rain (150 mm) |
| April | about 3 °C | a lot of rain (120 mm) |
| May best | about 6 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| June best | about 9 °C | some rain (84 mm) |
| July best | about 11 °C | some rain (96 mm) |
| August best | about 10 °C | a lot of rain (117 mm) |
| September best | about 8 °C | a lot of rain (180 mm) |
| October | about 4 °C | a lot of rain (144 mm) |
| November | about 2 °C | a lot of rain (150 mm) |
| December | about 0 °C | a lot of rain (165 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 Iceland
- Capital
- Reykjavík
- Language
- Icelandic
- Currency
- Icelandic Króna (ISK)
- Time
- UTC+0
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +354
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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