Grytviken

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

An eerie, rusted whaling station turned museum at the bottom of the world.

Warmest month is January at 8°C on average. Coolest is July at 3°C.

Six lead datapoints

  • Flight timeMethodology
    16h from London Heathrow
    Great-circle plus routing overhead.
  • 4,666 kg return from London Heathrow
    DEFRA 2024 economy factors, includes radiative forcing.
MonthAvg highSwingRain days
January8°±6°·
February8°±6°·
March8°±7°·
April7°±10°·
May5°±9°·
June4°±8°·
July3°±8°·
August5°±7°·
September7°±10°·
October8°±9°·
November8°±6°·
December7°±6°·

What to do

  • Toast a glass of whiskey exactly at the grave of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton
  • Wander among the giant rusting oil vats of the abandoned whaling settlement
  • Visit the surprisingly curated and fascinating South Georgia Museum
  • Send a postcard to your friends from one of the world's most remote post offices

How we know this

Values are the average of the last ten calendar years of daily readings from Visual Crossing, snapped to the destination cluster. Swing is the p10 to p90 range of daily highs, halved for the ± figure. Rain days count any day with at least 1 mm of precipitation.