Abisko National Park

Sweden

An arctic wilderness renowned for having the clearest skies in Sweden for aurora spotting.

Warmest month is July at 17°C on average. Coolest is January at -6°C. Driest reading falls in July with 9 rain days.

Six lead datapoints

MonthAvg highSwingRain days
January-6°±9°10
February-5°±9°10
March-3°±6°11
April2°±5°11
May7°±7°10
June13°±7°11
July17°±7°9
August14°±5°13
September10°±6°12
October3°±6°10
November-2°±7°11
December-4°±6°13

What to do

  • Ride the chairlift up Mt. Nuolja to the Aurora Sky Station
  • Hike a section of the Kungsleden trail
  • Ice climb frozen waterfalls in the Abisko canyon

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.