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Oslo weather by month

Oslo runs from about -8°C in January to 16°C in July, with July the wettest month at 186 mm.

warmest month

July

16°C

coolest month

January

-8°C

wettest month

July

186 mm

worst air month

February

13 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Oslo
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January-8°C91 mm80 h10
February-3°C91 mm91 h13
March2°C86 mm133 h12
April5°C61 mm288 h7
May15°C78 mm431 h6
June15°C138 mm408 h5
July16°C186 mm328 h6
August16°C122 mm309 h5
September12°C107 mm227 h6
October8°C64 mm146 h7
November2°C30 mm110 h10
December0°C53 mm66 h11

About 2,617 hours of sun a year. Roughly 111 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.