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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Lillehammer
Lillehammer climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest Jun–Aug
Annual mean5°day and night
Seasonal swing23°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation831 mm200 wet days a year
61.12° N, 10.47° EElevation 210 mUTC+2 · Central European Summer Time
When to goLillehammer · weather score
Best timeJun–Aug
October: high / low8° / 2°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Lillehammer has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb): warm summers, cold winters and precipitation in every season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 22° and nights 12°. January is the coolest month, with highs of -3° and lows of -9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 23°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 831 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (97 mm, 23 wet days) and March the driest (48 mm, 12 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 37% in May to 51% in November.
Compared with Oslo, the capital, Lillehammer is 0.7° cooler on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 22° · July
- Coldest nights
- -9° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- March
- Clearest skies
- May · 37% cloud
- Longest day
- 19 h 15 min
- Shortest day
- 5 h 34 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | -3° | -1° | 4° | 10° | 16° | 20° | 22° | 20° | 15° | 8° | 2° | -2° |
| Average low | -9° | -8° | -4° | 0° | 5° | 9° | 12° | 11° | 7° | 2° | -3° | -8° |
| Precipitation | 57 mm | 39 mm | 48 mm | 43 mm | 66 mm | 79 mm | 97 mm | 94 mm | 81 mm | 90 mm | 83 mm | 54 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 16.2 | 13.1 | 12.3 | 13.2 | 16.6 | 18.7 | 22.5 | 21.6 | 16.7 | 16.9 | 16.1 | 15.6 |
| Cloud cover | 47% | 43% | 45% | 43% | 37% | 38% | 37% | 40% | 43% | 49% | 51% | 48% |
| Daylight | 6h 24 | 9h 02 | 11h 42 | 14h 39 | 17h 24 | 19h 15 | 18h 28 | 15h 53 | 12h 59 | 10h 10 | 7h 21 | 5h 34 |
| Month score | 18 | 22 | 23 | 21 | 53 | 64 | 64 | 63 | 48 | 17 | 16 | 18 |
ivMonth by month
Lillehammer in every month
January18
-3° / -9°
57 mm · 16.2 wet days
February22
-1° / -8°
39 mm · 13.1 wet days
March23
4° / -4°
48 mm · 12.3 wet days
April21
10° / 0°
43 mm · 13.2 wet days
May53
16° / 5°
66 mm · 16.6 wet days
June64
20° / 9°
79 mm · 18.7 wet days
July64
22° / 12°
97 mm · 22.5 wet days
August63
20° / 11°
94 mm · 21.6 wet days
September48
15° / 7°
81 mm · 16.7 wet days
October17
8° / 2°
90 mm · 16.9 wet days
November16
2° / -3°
83 mm · 16.1 wet days
December18
-2° / -8°
54 mm · 15.6 wet days