What is the weather like in Finland year round?

Climate and Average Weather Year Round in Helsinki Finland. In Helsinki, the summers are comfortable and partly cloudy and the winters are long, freezing, snowy, windy, and mostly cloudy. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 17°F to 71°F and is rarely below -3°F or above 79°F.

Is Finland cold all year round?

Finland is largely a flat country. Winter is long and cold throughout the country; it lasts almost five months even in Helsinki, which lies in the far south. Here, the temperature remains almost constantly around or below freezing (0 °C or 32 °F) from mid-November to late March.

What is the warmest it gets in Finland?

The highest temperature ever recorded is 37.2 °C (99.0 °F) (Liperi, July 29, 2010). The lowest, −51.5 °C (−60.7 °F) (Kittilä, January 28, 1999).

How much snow does northern Finland get?

Permanent snow covers open grounds about two weeks after winter begins. The snow cover is deepest around mid-March, with an average of 60 to 90 cm of snow in eastern and northern Finland and 20 to 30 cm in southwestern Finland. The lakes freeze over in late November and early December.

Does Finland have 4 seasons?

The stark contrasts between the four seasons are the main characteristics of the annual natural cycle in Finland. For a great part of the year the land is covered in frost and snow but there is a certain kind of mystique in the air when the seasons eventually change.

Is it always dark in Finland?

Dark Arctic winters have their counterpart in one of the most iconic of Finnish natural phenomena, the Midnight Sun. Many wonder how Finns survive with no sunlight in the winter, and nature replies with 24 hours of it in the summer. After the harsh winter, endless daylight never arrives a day too early.

Which is colder Finland or Iceland?

The top ten coldest countries in the world are rounded off by Finland (1.7°C), Iceland (1.75°C), Tajikistan (2°C), Sweden (2.1°C) and Estonia (5.1°C).

Where in the World Is it dark for 6 months?

In Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August. The extreme sites are the poles, where the Sun can be continuously visible for half the year. The North Pole has midnight sun for 6 months from late March to late September.

What country has 24 hour darkness?

Tromsø, Norway (for the Polar Night) The exact opposite of midnight sun, the polar night is when the majority of a 24-hour period is spent in night.