According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Norway is June to September and November to March. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for Norway
- JanuaryBest
- FebruaryBest
- MarchBest
- April
- May
- JuneBest
- JulyBest
- AugustBest
- SeptemberBest
- October
- NovemberBest
- DecemberBest
- Best months
- June to September and November to March
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- Europe
- Note
- Oct-March: Northern Lights
What Norway is best for
Explore Oslo's world-class museums, waterfront architecture, and Nordic food before heading into dramatic fjords and snowy peaks.
- Prices
- €€€ · more expensive than in Slovakia
Weather in Norway by month
Monthly averages around Oslo; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January best | about −6 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| February best | about −5 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| March best | about −2 °C | some rain (54 mm) |
| April | about 4 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
| May | about 10 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| June best | about 14 °C | some rain (96 mm) |
| July best | about 16 °C | a lot of rain (108 mm) |
| August best | about 15 °C | a lot of rain (117 mm) |
| September best | about 10 °C | some rain (96 mm) |
| October | about 4 °C | a lot of rain (102 mm) |
| November best | about 0 °C | some rain (93 mm) |
| December best | about −5 °C | some rain (75 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 Norway
- Capital
- Oslo
- Language
- Norwegian
- Currency
- Norwegian Krone (NOK)
- Time
- UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +47
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
Our posts about Norway
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