Oslo or Uppsala? Weather and busy months compared

TL;DR

Of our 157 European cities, Oslo and Uppsala are each other's closest weather match in another country: month by month, their average highs differ by 0.4 °C on average and their rainy days by 1.1. In 2025 both Norway and Sweden were busiest in July.

Weather, month by month

1991–2020 averages at each city's weather station.2 Of every city we publish, Uppsala is the one whose year of highs and rainy days is closest to Oslo's, and the other way round.

Oslo and Uppsala: average weather by month, 1991 to 2020
MonthHigh, OsloHigh, UppsalaLow, OsloLow, UppsalaRainy days, OsloRainy days, UppsalaRain, OsloRain, Uppsala
January0.1 °C0.4 °C−4.7 °C−4.6 °C10.0 days8.2 days58 mm35 mm
February1.1 °C0.9 °C−4.7 °C−5.0 °C8.0 days7.0 days46 mm29 mm
March5.3 °C4.8 °C−2.1 °C−2.5 °C7.0 days6.9 days41 mm28 mm
April11.0 °C11.2 °C2.1 °C1.1 °C8.0 days5.8 days48 mm31 mm
May16.7 °C16.8 °C6.8 °C5.6 °C9.0 days7.8 days60 mm40 mm
June20.4 °C20.8 °C10.8 °C10.1 °C10.0 days9.6 days80 mm63 mm
July22.7 °C23.6 °C13.4 °C13.1 °C11.0 days9.2 days87 mm60 mm
August21.3 °C22.1 °C12.5 °C12.2 °C11.0 days10.0 days103 mm74 mm
September16.4 °C16.7 °C8.6 °C8.3 °C9.0 days8.2 days82 mm49 mm
October9.6 °C10.0 °C3.8 °C3.7 °C11.0 days9.2 days93 mm52 mm
November4.4 °C4.7 °C0.0 °C0.2 °C11.0 days9.9 days85 mm51 mm
December0.9 °C1.7 °C−3.7 °C−3.0 °C10.0 days10.2 days54 mm44 mm

When each country is busy

Share of each country's 2025 tourist nights by month; “quieter” marks a month under an even share of the year (8.3%).1 These are whole-country figures, not the cities'.

Norway and Sweden: share of 2025 tourist nights by month
MonthNorwaySweden
January4.9% (quieter)4.8% (quieter)
February5.7% (quieter)5.4% (quieter)
March6.3% (quieter)5.9% (quieter)
April5.9% (quieter)6.4% (quieter)
May8.2% (quieter)8.5%
June11.9%10.8%
July18.2%19.8%
August13.6%13.4%
September8.4%7.5% (quieter)
October6.5% (quieter)6.6% (quieter)
November5.5% (quieter)5.5% (quieter)
December4.9% (quieter)5.3% (quieter)

Months that were quieter than average in Norway but not in Sweden: May. The other way round: September.

More on each

What this cannot tell you

  • Quieter is relative. A quieter month is a smaller share of that place's own year, not fewer visitors than somewhere else.
  • One weather station per city. Coasts, mountains and city centres differ; these are long-term averages, not a forecast.
  • Country and prefecture totals. How busy a month is comes from the whole country or prefecture, not the city.
  • 2025 only. One year of visits; events and holidays move between years.

Key takeaways

  • Average highs differ by 0.4 °C a month on average; rainy days by 1.1.
  • Busiest month in 2025: Norway July, Sweden July.
  • Quietest: Norway January, Sweden January.
  • What we would skip: treating alike weather as an alike trip. Prices, distances and what there is to do are not compared here.

Sources

The weather comes from the World Meteorological Organization's 1991–2020 normals and the visits from Eurostat, copied from each city's and country's own page. See how we research.

  1. Source: Eurostat, Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_NIM, accessed 25 September 2026. Dataset last updated by Eurostat on 22 September 2026. Extract: number of nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests and split by guests resident in the country and abroad, January–December 2025.
  2. Weather: WMO Member Nations (2023). WMO Climatological Standard Normals for 1991-2020 (NCEI Accession 0253808), the station named for each country in the table (the same station its country page uses), mean daily maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and number of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation, normals computed from at least 24 years; also station MilanoLinate (station ID 00016080); also station BariPalese (station ID 00016270), from the same files, downloaded 24 September 2026. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. doi:10.25921/800j-vn07. Accessed 22 September 2026. Released by NOAA under CC0.

We matched, sorted and rounded the figures ourselves, and the rule for a match is ours; the agencies have not checked or endorsed these pages. Shares are rounded once, to one decimal.